"Happiness is overrated. Maybe we are not built for it. Maybe the best we can hope for is to be... Content. To be resigned. To muddle through life and be grateful for the good, and work through the bad. Maybe that is what I will have for the rest of my life, this good life to which I am resigned, to which I am grateful."

Elizabeth is a forty five year old married mother of two grown girls. Now that her daughters have moved out and her husband continues to travel for his job, Elizabeth starts to question her place in life. She is not ungrateful, nor is she searching for some excitement in life. She just ponders and wonders, if her life could be more fulfilled.

"I don't remember the first day I resented this. I don't remember wondering why all the years I'd made the effort were not reciprocated. Nothing jumped up and bit me or slammed like a door in my face. That's not how it happens. What happens is you get married, you raise your kids, they go off to school, and you look at your spouse and wonder what on earth you're supposed to do with each other now, without all the distractions of having a family to obscure the fact that you have no idea not only who the other is, but who you are yourself."

Her saving grace is her time at work, where she gets to interact with other people and do something for herself, rather than for her husband or her daughters. Through her work, she meets Will. They are drawn to each other immediately and although both hesitate, a love affair starts.

Never before have I connected to a character the way I connected with Elizabeth. I am so conflicted over this story. On the one hand, I don't condone infidelity of any kind but on the other, I could understand how she went ahead with it. And that right there is why I loved this story so much! It made me question many things I though unquestionable.

Megan Hart did a wonderful job in drawing me into the story. By no means was this an easy read. It was as painful as it was enlightening. I could easily feel Elizabeth's longing for something more, her hesitation at continuing the affair and her heartbreak when all was said and done. I can't judge her, not really. Many of her thoughts have been my own and many of her actions have been pondered by me at one time or another.

“He was my ocean, and I didn’t know if I would drown until I learned how well I could swim.”

But mostly, I appreciated the fact that the author didn't 'romanticize' this story. The characters came across as real, their struggles were of the common kind and the life they led was as ordinary as that of you or me. There was no happily ever after or driving away into the sunset, but there was raw honesty, instant attraction, yearning and heart break.

“Love, when it goes, can sometimes burn to ash. And sometimes it can leave nothing.”

This was my first Megan Hart book, but it certainly won't be my last.

I received this title from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange of my honest opinion.

This was an ok erotica book. It could have been better but wasn't the worst. I have enjoyed this author in the past.