Close Relations

The New York
Times bestselling author of Compromising Positions returns
at her sexy and satiric best, with a novel that blends sex, politics, and
family craziness

Marcia Green is a
sophisticated, witty, successful New Yorker, a whiz of a political speech
writer, a woman who finds a smoke-filled room more intoxicating than a magnum
of champagne. Her private life is a little less bubbly. She has a passionate
but not very promising live-in relationship with her boss’s dashing chief of
staff, Jerry Morrissey. He offers her only a good time—but what a time!

Can Marcia resist when
a new man arrives on the scene, a man who is exactly the sort her family wants
her to marry—bright, kind, attractive, wealthy, and charming—in short, too good
to be real? Marcia is determined to find the right kind of man, as well as the
right kind of life.

Compelling and
entertaining, Close Relations is about the things that are
vital to all of us, about men and women, about sex, money, work, family values
and about what we need most in today’s world—close relations.