Some women are born to lust after other women’s men. Jean Thornton was one of them. And operating in a small, New England town such as Walton full of tradition and bored husbands, Jean had a field day. She wasn’t satisfied with wrecking homes. She nearly wrecked the whole town. Walton was a dot on the map when she moved there. it was a smear when she left.

This is not a book for you if you shock easily. Not for a long time has adultery been treated with such shocking, brutal frankness.