A woman who has everything going for her gives in to adultery. The heroine is Jo Becker of Massachusetts, a well-off veterinarian with grown children and a husband she loves. One day she meets a man from her past and it happens. The novel analyzes why.
This is a story about marriage and the friendship of Meri, newly married and pregnant and Delia, the wife a senator who is chronic infidelity is well know in Washington circles.