What do you do when your spouse of twenty years is revealed to be unfaithful, a misdeed disclosed to you and the world simultaneously in news bulletins splashed across the broadcast and print media?

How do you keep your entire world from collapsing when, among the tragic consequences of the affair, your husband's mistress is murdered and he is permanently paralyzed from his shoulders down in a double shooting by the woman's former lover?

Archaeologist Mrs. Lily Light grapples with these horrendous challenges in master storyteller Linda Lee Greene's "Cradle of the Serpent," a lyrical, lush, and compelling tour de force that will keep you up at night reading.