Margaret Crane is a woman others would envy with her comfortable home, teaching career, loving husband and three beautiful children. Shr should be so happy. And yet her husband Adam is working too late at the office. He and margaret are spending less and less time together. He seems distracted. Perhaps it's just the uncertainty, the rumoured takeover of his company. Then Margaret meets Randi - the Other Woman. Meanwhile, Nina - the orphaned cousin Margaret and Adam raised as their own daughter - is a promising young decorator in New York. She thinks she's found Mr. Right in Keith, a handsome investment banker. But her lover may not be all he seems. With her characteristic warmth, insight and sensitivity, Belva Plain creates a brilliant portrayal of a happy marriage eroded by tamptation, and of two women who find strength and triumph in the wake of despair.