Live To Tell: A Novel

What is it people interviewed for those true crime shows always say when one spouse kills the other—divorce is always an option?

To the casual observer, Dr. Charles Morgan has all the boxes checked in the “win” column: beautiful wife, gorgeous home, thriving career.
However, what the casual observer doesn’t see is the misery and toxicity that defines Charles’ decades-long marriage to the icy and enigmatic Jillian, nor his weariness and yearning for something—anything—to jolt him out of the fog choking him like a vine.
To combat his bitterness and boredom, Charles toys with the idea of an extramarital affair and it isn’t long before he’s drawn into an exciting, though tawdry, liaison with the unlikeliest of women. As the lies escalate and the line between reality and illusion becomes increasingly blurred, Charles finds himself sucked into a horrifying maelstrom of madness and murder…