Her life was full of hints she'd missed... Alice Mayhew's marriage seemed cozy and confident. Her daughter bright - and beautifully balanced. And she herself - as fulfilled as she'd ever be. But then her model child dropped out of college - and into a secret alliance with a man twice her age. Her own marriage began to bind too tightly, like a garment she'd outgrown. Then a passionate young man named David jolted her tidy world out of its twenty-year orbit - and set her on a course more terrifying - and exilarating - than she had ever dared to dream of...