First published 2014
Jodi hears Todd's key in the lock and feels the familiar anxiety wash over her. Twenty years of marriage have taught her to expect his infidelity. She works as a psychotherapist from their lakefront apartment, seeing only two clients daily while Todd's construction business funds their comfortable lifestyle. Their golden retriever Freud keeps her company between Pilates sessions and gourmet cooking. Todd promises he will never find another woman like her, yet Jodi knows about his chronic adultery. She plays the silent wife, enduring his betrayals to preserve their perfect facade. Then Todd abandons her for his best friend's daughter, a woman half Jodi's age. Left financially devastated and emotionally shattered, Jodi begins considering murder as a viable solution. The story alternates between his perspective and hers as their marriage careens toward destruction. This psychological thriller examines a couple racing toward catastrophe, exploring the compromises that cannot be made and the promises that will never be kept.
Genres: domestic-fiction, suspense, contemporary, psychological-thriller
Vibes: dark, emotional, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Lakefront Apartment
Period: Twenty Years
256 pages · Paperback · Intrínseca
Content warnings: domestic-violence