After Dark

Claire Morgan has exactly the life she worked for: three sons growing more independent by the day, a thriving interior-design career, and a seventeen-year marriage to Ben that is affectionate, stable, and still very much alive. She isn't looking for an escape.

Then, at a neighborhood party, Claire realizes that watching another woman want her husband turns her on.

What begins as a carefully managed fantasy leads Claire and Ben into a world of private clubs, negotiated boundaries, and Greer - a divorced realtor who refuses to remain anyone's experiment. Claire is captivated by the way Greer wants Ben. Then she discovers she wants Greer too.

As desire becomes relationship, the rules Claire created to make expansion feel safe begin to look more like control. Ben and Greer build memories without her. Greer wants to matter outside the fantasy. Claire's own desire refuses to stay neatly inside the marriage. And when their private arrangement becomes visible to family, clients, and children, Claire must decide what she is actually protecting.

AFTER DARK is an intimate, high-heat novel about marriage, female desire, bisexual awakening, jealousy, and the unsettling possibility that wanting more does not always mean wanting out.