A Minor Indiscretion

In a moment of madness, Ali Kingston, wife and mother of three, skips work to spend the day with Christian, a gorgeous street artist fifteen years her junior. Midlife crisis or whatever, it escalates when Ali's husband, Ed, equates her minor indiscretion with a major affair and kicks her out into the rainy night and Christian's open arms. Soon thirty-eight-year-old Ali is ensconced in a Notting Hill love nest wondering how to introduce her children to the charismatic Christian, who could easily have been her teenage daughter's boyfriend rather than her own. Meanwhile back at the ranch house in suburban Richmond, Ed is also facing unanticipated temptations, as two younger women compete to console him for the loss of his wife, while family and friends attempt to reunite him with Ali with deliciously droll results. Then a disconcerting event forces both Ed and Ali to decide what they really want—from themselves, from each other and from life itself. When Ali and Ed Kingston decide to go their separate ways after Ali's brief encounter with a much younger street artist, their friends and family will stop at nothing to see them reunited, in a wickedly funny novel of temptation and midlife crises