Paige Austin has interesting work, a stable marriage, and a circle of women friends that help soothe the ache she would have filled with the child she can't concieve. Still, hers is a world that seems to rotate agreeably on its axis, until her husband's son Malachi, walks into it. Suddenly, Paige is watching herself spin in a brand new direction as she begins to lose sight of everything she'd thought she was about. Thrown out of boarding school Mal comes back home to Manhattan. Paige's friends proffer effusive counsel on stepmotherhood, but nothing prepares her for Mal himself. An impossibly tall, smart-talking young man, he makes her feel certifiably old, and yet edgily, wonderfully alive. In a few electric days, Mal and Paige seem to forge a connection neither of them can fathom. She is no longer childless, and Mal basks in a love unprecedented in his 17 years as they form a mother-son bond. Then, as abruptly as he arrived, he stalks away, into an existence Paige can only imagine. Left with an unravelling marriage and a wounded heart, she attempts her own kind of escape...until Mal's inevitable crisis crashes in.
- ISBN10 0671023985
- ISBN13 9780671023980
- Publish Date 1 May 2000 (first published 1 March 1999)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 1 November 2023
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Atria Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 288
- Language English