Lucky Night

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They're married to other people. But tonight, after six years of casual sex, a couple is trapped in a hotel room. As a fire rages below them, they are forced to confront the lies they've told their spouses, each other-and themselves-in this edge of your seat, witty, sharply observed novel. Nick Holloway is forty-six. He is the picture of success: a successful partner at a law firm, with a gorgeous wife, a precious daughter, and a house in the suburbs. If he also has gnawing disappointments, secret yearnings, and a creeping sense of opportunities wasted, well, that's nobody's fault but his own. Jenny Parrish is forty years old. She has two lovely sons, a devoted if somewhat hapless husband, and recently has gained success as a wildly popular young adult author. It's a dream come true, a perfect life! So perfect, she can't help but wonder sometimes whether it's all going to come crashing down. If Nick and Jenny run into each other in town, they politely acknowledge each other the way slight acquaintances ...