Rae is a 38 year old wife and mother of two teenage children. She has grown up in a very conservative family and almost married right out of high school. She is one who has not considered her self good looking or dressed up in ways to make herself sexy. Rae is married to a career military officer who is off on another deployment hopefully his last before he retires. Rae's world is fixing to open up with the help of her daughter and a new found friend. If you had any doubt there is some erotic situations in this book. Also there is a trigger warning that there is a page long situation that involves sibling rape. For the genre that this book falls in it is pretty good read about a middle age women coming out of her shell.

Thank you Netgalley for this ARC for an exchange for an honest review.

Not bad, worth a read. Not for everyone though.

Rae came from a very conservative religious family and was married to an officer in the military. As a result she lived a very conservative lifestyle. When her husband was send to Afghanistan for nine months, she was looking for something to pass the time. She joined a yoga class that was offered on the base. She met another military wife at the class and starting talking to her. They became friends as the other woman's spouse was also overseas. Rae's new friend got her to loosen up and buy younger clothes and start to have more fun. They established a close bond immediately. Rae was introduced to things she had never done including a sexual experience with her new friend. She had to reconcile her upbringing with this new life that she was experiencing. This was an interesting book. I recommend it.

Warning: Contains spoilers
Oh boy, where to start with this book. To be brutally honest it was awful. I'm sorry, I hate writing bad reviews but there just isn't anything I can find to even try to sugarcoat about this book. The writing is awful and I have to say the relationship between mother and daughter in this book is just downright disturbing. What parent takes their kid to get their vaginas waxed and bathe naked afterward together while discussing their pubic hair patterns and later their first lesbian encounters together....seriously WTF?
The book goes from bad to worse when later, both cheating wives' husbands are killed in action and the first thing they do is go have sex and decide they are going to move in together, and even better...her kids are totally cool with it! Perhaps the strangest thing of all in this book is the out there conspiracy theory rant that completely comes out of left field and has nothing to do with the book.
Normally I wouldn't finish a book this bad, but I found that I kept reading just to see how bad it would be. Thank you to NetGalley and Sanandra Allsgood for proving a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. I'm sorry I wasn't a fan.

I wanted to enjoy this book but the writing is so stilted. It’s not even the fact that it’s a guy writing about women but it’s just not how people talk in every day conversation. Also, I found myself rolling my eyes thinking, “this is not how grown women act or talk.”