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Perfect Life. Perfect wife. Content husband. Adorable kid.
Alice McBain lives to ensure everyone in her life is happy. She caters to her husband. She dotes on her daughter. She mother-hens her friends. She bends over backwards for her bosswho is also her lover.Marilyn Morgan, Alices boss, and the Mayor of Tuckaway Bay, is gearing up for a state Senate seat run next fall. Shes made it perfectly clear they cannot have a perfect relationship with each other until certain things happen. The most important of which is keeping their relationship on the down-low until after the election. She doesnt want her constituents, or her husband, to know shes having an affair with her administrative assistant-slash-campaign manager, until long after shes settled into her new political position at the capital.
Alice understands thisbut still itches to move things forward.
After all, theyve kept their long-term relationship secret for over a dozen years. Maybe its time to come out and live that perfect life together theyve so often talked about and dreamed of.
So, Alice takes some steps. Tells her own husband. Upsets her daughter. Word gets out. Her perfect lifeall their perfect livesspeedily crumbles.
And theres not a damn thing Alice McBain can do about any of it.
Genre: General Fiction