Chapter Four
The day her five complimentary copies of Discovering appeared in her mailbox, Jessica felt a strange kind of melancholy. Until that precise moment, she could have said honestly that she had never for a minute missed being married. Suddenly, though, she was confronted with something both exhilarating and frightening that she could share with no one. It was at once a great accomplishment, a guilty secret, and a source of the kind of fear that always comes just a moment after it’s too late to change your mind. Looking at the cover of the book, she giggled, but it was a giggle that was part pleasure and part hysteria.
Had Eve lived next door instead of across the country, she might well have rushed over to show her the books. Across the country, though, the only way to show her
