by Jeff Hobbs
First published 2007
David returns home each night to his wife Samona with nothing left to give. The hedge fund prodigy traded his ideals for money, while Samona watches her best years slip away in their hollow marriage. Their friend Ethan designs furniture by day and seeks darker thrills by night, unsatisfied by power lunches and empty relationships. A freelance reporter watches it all unfold, sharing tangled histories with each of them. When Samona and Ethan cross paths at a gallery opening, they find what their lives have been missing. The reporter pieces together the events as they spiral toward betrayal. David unknowingly hires Ethan to design conference rooms for his firm, creating a secret triangle. Seven years after Yale, these former classmates discover that success in Manhattan comes with a price none of them expected to pay.
Genres: fiction, drama, literary-fiction, contemporary
Vibes: emotional, intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, secret-triangle
Setting: Manhattan, Yale
Period: 21st-century
338 pages · Kindle Edition · Simon Schuster