OPEN

<p class=ql-align-center>CAN AN OPEN MARRIAGE SAVE A RELATIONSHIP? OR DOES IT SPELL THE END?</p><p class=ql-align-center><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify>When Alex and Lila married they dreamed of having a big family. Fourteen years two children several miscarriages and a stillbirth later Lila is devastated when Alex torpedoes that dream by getting a vasectomy without telling her. Alex a doctor doesn't believe another pregnancy would be safe for her health or her heart. Lila shuts down-her body mind emotions-unable to cope with her guilt from the stillbirth Alex's betrayal and her unrelenting ache for another child. They grow apart functioning as little more than co-parents. </p><p class=ql-align-justify>Trust broken intimacy extinct Alex proposes an open marriage. A proposal he quickly regrets. Guilt frustration and heartache shadow him after each hookup as he realizes there is no substitute for Lila. But it might be too late. Time apart from Alex drives Lila closer to Geneva a dynamic yet haunted woman who helps awaken Lila's passion and voice. Secrets sex and lies come to light causing Alex and Lila to reassess their motives and desire to save their marriage.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em>What People are Saying about OPEN</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>...an amazing representation of the reality of marriage...You won't be able to set this book down as you watch this relationship wax and wane like a candle in a breeze and your loyalties shift just as quickly.--Kathie Giorgio author of <em>If You Tame Me </em>and <em>All Told</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>...characters you cannot help but fall in love with even when ... Like family you root for them and want to knock some sense into them all at the same time. I was hooked from the first page and didn't want to put it down.--Nora Murray author of <em>Kingdom Come.</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>What a circus to watch these people interact and judge all the while trying to hold themselves together. Secrets upon secrets drew me in deeper and deeper clear to the end.--Mary Ann Noe author of <em>To Know Her</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Excerpt</em></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I'll pick up the kids he said always Mr. Fix-It. Take them over to Nick's for dinner and then drop them off when we're done.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>How seamlessly we transitioned into separate lives. A de facto divorced couple. Did he realize it? Did he see how easily we could lose everything? How an open marriage would become a break and ultimately a divorce?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Did he care? Was this step one in a plan to ultimately leave me? Fine.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Fine. He didn't say goodbye.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>My phone switched back to the lock screen a picture of Levi and Charlotte smiling with chocolate ice cream on their faces holding the cones up like souvenirs. I couldn't have it both ways. I had to agree. For them.</span></p>