Madeline Benités is a realist, unaffected by the power of destiny, a skeptic who firmly believes in free will. Fed up with the man in her life, Jake Keene, when he becomes engaged to marry another woman, Maddie feels a need for distance to salvag...

Rose McKillop’s virtuous life as mother and homemaker, and her seventeen-year marriage, are safe haven from her outlandish family: sexually-unfettered sister, Justine, a freelance writer; brother, James, in trouble with money, prostitutes and...