Mad River Road

Simon & Schuster Adult Publi, 2006. As New. After spending a year in prison, Ralph has explicit plans for his first nig ht of freedom: tonight, someone will be held accountable. He goes to murder ous lengths to learn the address of his former wife the woman he blames fo r his fate. Determined to bring her to his idea of justice, Ralph's next st ep is to travel from Florida to Ohio to find his ex-wife's house on Mad Riv er Road. Also in Florida, Jamie Kellogg wakes from the agonizing nightmare of her mo ther's funeral, and assesses her life: she's a twenty-nine-year-old woman i n a dead-end job, with an ex-husband in Atlanta, a married lover in the hos pital, and a virtual stranger in her bed. But this stranger is everything t he previous men in her life weren't: tender, attentive, and adventurous. Af ter convincing Jamie to quit her miserable job and ditch her judgmental, pe rfectionist sister, Ralph proposes a romantic getaway. While Jamie wonders if this thrilling man might finally be her Prince Charming, they plan a roa d trip to visit his son, who lives with his mother on a street called Mad R iver Road. As riveting and beguiling as Joy Fielding's previous novels, Mad River Road is a tale of courage, truth, and the need to trust one's instincts.