Careful What You Wish for

<p><strong>From the <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of <em>There Was an Old Woman</em> comes a novel about a professional organizer with a deadly problem she may not be able to clean up.</strong></p><p><strong>Thrilling and suspenseful.... I laughed more than I expected to related to quotidian elements like overpacked closets and let myself be carried along on this nightmare of a trip.... Emily...is a friend we would all want to keep--messes included.--Jamie Lee Curtis <em>Time</em></strong><br/><br/>Emily Harlow is a professional organizer who helps people declutter their lives; she's married to man who can't drive past a yard sale without stopping. He's filled their basement attic and garage with his finds and she'd love nothing better than to toss out all of it. He says he's a collector. Emily knows better--he's a hoarder. The larger his collection becomes the deeper the distance grows between Emily and the man she married.</p><p>Luckily Emily's got two new clients to distract herself: an elderly widow whose husband left behind a storage unit she didn't know existed and a young wife whose husband won't allow her stuff into their house. Emily's initial meeting with the young wife takes a detour when after too much wine the women end up fantasizing about how much more pleasant life would be without their collecting spouses. </p><p>But the next day Emily finds herself in a mess that might be too big for her to clean up. Careful what you wish for the old adage says. Now Emily might lose her freedom her marriage . . . and possibly her life. </p>