When Carlys Webber's loving husband turns into an angry stranger, she is tempted to find comfort in the arms of a handsome colleague. "Sharply and stylishly written. Harris writes with intellect, insight and humor." —Chicago Sun-Times
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A lonely wife. A handsome lover. A jealous husband. A gun in a Tiffany bag.
The Married Woman–When Carlys Webber’s marriage to millionaire Kirk Arnold falters, will she risk everything for the excitement of a brief affair?
The Single Woman–Wildly stylish fashion executive, Jade Mullen survives deception and divorce, but when she falls in love again, is she doomed to another betrayal?
The Husband–Wealthy tycoon, Kirk Arnold, achieves one dazzling success after another, but can his marriage survive a shocking legacy he struggles to forget?
The Lover–Architect George Kouras rises from humble beginnings to the top of his profession. When he and Jade fall deeply in love, they think they have invented a new way to live happily ever after, but have they?
Set in high-powered executive suites and elegant Park Avenue apartments, in modest, ethnic neighborhoods and sedate suburbs, Husbands and Lovers is about four unforgettable characters losing–and finding– themselves in the gritty 1970s and glitzy 1980s.
“Sharply and stylishly written. Harris writes with intellect, insight and humor.” —Chicago Sun-Times
“A contemporary tale of passion and commitment. Steamy, fast-paced, you will be spellbound. Harris is an insightful writer and her empathy for her women, especially the ugly duckling who makes herself into a swan adds a satisfying obbligato of reality.” —Cosmopolitan
“Harris relates the games of love and war in a fast-forward, high octane style, resurrecting the nervous Seventies through a welter of accurate detail, from the clothes and books and other cultural artifacts to the sexual mores of the period. A dead-on accurate social critic, Harris has capture the feel of being young and hungry and ambitious in New York. Husbands And Lovers explores this changing dynamic of the dance between the sexes as few popular novels have done before. Deserves a large audience.” –-New Woman Book Club
“Harris is dangerously close to moving beyond the reef that separates the lagoon of popular fiction from deeper waters. Her prose is sharp, her eye keen. With a pen like the rapier of Zorro, she slashes across the breeches of characters whose foibles she exposes.” –Christian Science Monitor
