Sixty-year-old Melody Thomas has a perfect life—or does she? Melody runs a fairly successful chain of superstores, and she and her husband have two incredible children, a daughter and a son. Melody has long come to terms with the fact that her life, her marriage, her everything, will lack passion.

Then her daughter comes out as gay and soon after becomes engaged to a photographer named Joy. Joy may be Melody's undoing. From their first meeting, Joy consumes Melody's mind, her body, her soul, her spirit. They embark on an affair, and Melody has never felt more alive. She thinks she and Joy fill each other's emptiness, but she is wrong, quite wrong—and she is about to find out what exactly she is capable of.

** This novella is about 28,500 words.