Publisher's Synopsis
Abria loved Marshall. They were married fifteen years but at almost forty she was tired of it feeling like it was her marriage, their problems were hers to navigate. Marshall loved her but wasn't predisposed to accepting responsibility for anything and felt saying I love you and gifting her beautiful things were enough. It had never been enough but now it was less than enough. She had to get away or lose everything that made her who she was. She knew no one would understand because they saw the stuff... the stuff they acquired together. She had been so quiet about her accomplishments even her family beyond her mom didn't know all she had done. He thought of her career as an administrator for a nonprofit benefiting her community as her little job. She never told anyone her accomplishments or salary and Marshall was certainly not going to. He felt it diminished him. Marshall loved Abria and the scariest thing would be for her to leave him. But... he always thought of her as a lot of work. When they met at twenty-five she was working on a graduate degree and employed as a legal secretary for the most famous attorney in their city. In 2005 she was earning nearly six figures as a secretary to his sixty as a marketing consultant. She never told him but her mom made sure to and he was floored. Abrias mom made a point of telling him how smart and talented her only child was. Marshall knew Percola Hughes didn't find him worthy of her daughter but his folks weren't enamored of Abria. The Albrights found her too, 'articulate' whatever that meant but he had to have her. She personified all he desired even if he was intimidated by it. He was afraid of the changes he blamed on her nearing forty but couldn't admit it was much more than an upcoming birthday.
