Two people, one hotel room, and all the choices and complications that make up a life.
After six years of a stolen hour here, another there, tonight is going to be different for Nick Holloway and Jenny Parrish. Theyโve booked a room in a new luxury hotel in Manhattan, where theyโll spend the entire night together for the first time. Expectations are running high for this brief reprieve from ordinary life: they both need a good bout of ravishing sex and witty conversation.
But thatโs not what they get.
Because theyโve barely gotten started when a smoke alarm goes off. Nick is annoyed, but not worried about what must be only a minor glitch. Jenny is anxious, guiltyโis karma coming for them at last?
This existential page-turner seamlessly shifts between Nick and Jennyโs perspectives as the reality of their situation becomes apparent, and all their secrets, evasions and regrets come spilling out. Stripped of their defenses, disagreeing about everything, these two flawed, funny, very different people are forced to be honestโwith each other and themselvesโabout what they want, all they stand to lose, and whether their affair is really as casual as it seems.