The Dangerous Age (First Edition)

The Millers are the envy of all who know them, a successful couple on the verge of the best years of their lives. Suzanne's first book is enjoying national attention while Barry can write his ticket to teach at any law school in the country. But a spate of recent deaths and the absence of her children, away at college, force Suzanne to confront the fact that her marriage is cold and empty.
When Suzanne meets Robert Parrish, a silver-haired banker from East Texas with a talent for real friendship with a woman and an appetite for sensual pleasure - suppressed for years in his own straight-laced marriage - she must decide between the secure life she chose after the shameful ending of her first love affair or the disdain of her children, the loss of friends and the financial uncertainty awaiting a woman who decides to uproot her life in pursuit of the true intimacy she has long denied herself.

The author of two exuberantly praised novels, Annette Williams Jaffee returns with a wise and sensual tale about pursuing the one great passion of our lives, not in our youth, but at that last dangerous moment when everything we own and everyone we love is at risk. The Millers are the envy of all their friends, a 'successful' couple on the verge of the best years of their lives. Suzanne's first book is enjoying national attention while Barry can write his own ticket to teach at any law school in the country. But a spate of recent deaths and the absence of her children, away at school, force Suzanne to confront the fact that her marriage is cold and empty. When Suzanne meets Robert Parrish, a banker from East Texas with a talent for real friendship with a woman and an appetite for sensual pleasure - suppressed for years in his own straight-laced marriage - she must decide between the secure life she chose after the shameful ending to her first love affair or the disdain of her children, the loss of friends and the financial uncertainty awaiting a woman who decides to uproot her life in pursuit of the true intimacy she has long denied herself. With rare insight, keen social satire and some of the most touchingly rendered erotic scenes in recent memory, The Dangerous Age is above all a story about seizing ecstasy in our lives...regardless of age, in spite of the consequences.