Henry Carter Hull

Laurel Shields' seemingly perfect marriage to her husband, Warren, comes crashing down when Warren discovers Laurel's infidelity and holds her at gunpoint, demanding to know who her lover is and whether or not he is the father of their two children and the baby she is carrying.

Olympia Biddeford's passionate affair with a married man nearly three times her age, results in her being exiled from society and forces her to make a new life for herself.

In seventeenth century New England, Hester Prynne is condemned by Puritan law to wear a scarlet "A" as the symbol of the sin she has committed.

With hits like Election and Joe College to his credit, author Tom Perrotta has established himself as a master of satire. Unhappily married Sarah passes her days at the local playground with her three-year-old daughter. When happily unemployed Todd (also married) and Sarah meet, their attraction is immediate. They begin a passionate affair just as their suburban utopia is rattled by the arrival of registered sex offender Ronald James McGorvey. With...

Ben Bradford's seemingly storybook life has been broken apart at the seams when an encounter with his wife's lover ends in murder forcing Ben to go underground, adopt a new identity, and start a new life.

Presents the complete text of the 1904 novel in which a father and his daughter marry at the same time after which her husband and his wife, known to one another before the weddings, begin an affair; and includes a critical introduction, a chronology, and a preface by the author.

Searching through a little-used cupboard at home, TV historian Glyn Peters chances upon a photograph he has never seen. Taken in high summer, many years before, it shows his wife, Kath, holding hands with another man. Glyn's mind fills with questions. Who was the man? Who took the photograph? Where was it taken? When? Worst of all: had Kath planned for him to find out all along? The Photography is a literary, psychologically complex novel of suspense...

Charles Schine, a steady man with a longtime job, a wife, and an ill child, finds his life spiraling out of control when he becomes involved with a married woman.