A debut novel about the intertwining lives of college faculty wives. Nestled among Manhattan University?s faculty housing, there is a garden where four women will meet?each with a scandalous secret that could upset their lives, destroy their families, and rock the prestigious university to its very core. With its maple trees, iron gate, and fence laced with honeysuckle, Manhattan U?s garden offers faculty wives Mary, Sofia, Ashleigh, and Hannah much needed refuge from their problems. But as Mary?s husband, the power-hungry dean, plans to demolish their beloved garden, these four women will discover a surprising secret about a lost Edgar Allan Poe manuscript?and realize they must find the courage to stand up for their passions, dreams, and desires.

Jill has married her Tom even though she know he had a history of picking up undesirable girls in pubs. She hopes marriage will change him and for a while it seems it has. But after a bit he starts to slip back into his old ways. She feels anxious, but tries to ignore her fears till a girl turns up pregnant on the doorstep claiming the child is his. She leaves him and sets up in a flat with her friend Emma who left her husband when he attacked her. Tom’s attempts to get her back become more and more frantic. Can two who are crazy about each other overcome the barriers of betrayal and distrust?

A "romp through the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote the plays attributed to him became an act of blasphemy--and who the Bard might really be"--