SNEAK PEEKS

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        Only-child Arlee Jones always dreamed of a large family. Now she'd settle for just one sibling for five-year-old Libby. But when a letter from a surprise half-sister arrives in the mail, enlarging her family takes on new meaning.

        Stunned by her mother's stubborn silence on the subject, devastated by her husband's selfish refusal to grow their family, and unnerved by a half-sister, who's moved 400 miles to pursue a relationship, Arlee finds solace in her budding friendship with the hot husband from the new family next door.

        As attraction leads to temptation, old secrets collide with shocking new ones. And Arlee gets exactly what she wants at the moment she loses everything. Now she must decide if the family she's fighting for is the family she still wants.

        The Husband Next Door examines the shock of betrayals, the conflict of loyalties, the blessing of surprises, and ultimately, the messy road to happiness when courage demands opening the heart to more.

        When her oldest child dies after a long illness, the road back to Cassidy Connolly's pampered life of service needs rebuilding. And everyone has an opinion on projects for her comeback. Her husband and two daughters have embraced the new normal. Why can't she?

        A little problem with apathy leads to excellent assistance from the medicine cabinet and enables Cassidy's return to Tuesday Lunches at The Club. But pretending to be okay is harder than it looks, especially with everyone watching. Especially when the conversations are stupid and she's battling weirdly inappropriate urges--to growl like a dog at the blue-haired town matriarch, shatter the ten-foot windows in the country club's fine dining room, and strangle the pencil neck of a size-two bitch with bows on her shoes.

        While Cassidy fantasizes about running away, addiction obscures the signs her family is falling apart. When her terrible secret is spectacularly exposed, Cassidy struggles to reconcile her broken dreams with the perfection of her friends' lives. And fails. It's only when her husband says, "don't come home," that a broken Cassidy realizes home is the only place she can heal.