Sometimes all you can do is fly away home . . . When Sylvie Serfer met Richard Woodruff in law school, she had wild curls, wide hips, and lots of opinions. Decades later, Sylvie has remade herself as the ideal politician's wife - her hair dyed and straightened, her hippie-chick wardrobe replaced by tailored knit suits. At fifty-seven, she ruefully acknowledges that her job is staying twenty pounds thinner than she was in her twenties and tending...

Preparing for an exhibit that includes a piece about the domestic violence she once endured at the hands of her gubernatorial candidate husband, an artist survives a home invasion only to find herself pitted against dangerous corrupt forces.

After the plane on which they were both flying crashes, television journalist Avery Daniels is mistaken for the wife of Tate Rutledge, an up and coming Texas politician. Unable to communicate because of the severity of her injuries, Avery is given the face of Tate's wife Carole during reconstructive surgery. During her recovery, she overhears a plot to assassinate Tate and decides to assume Carole's identity in order to try to protect him and further...