My Husband Lent Our Sunday to Another Woman

Synopsis

For twenty-two years, every Sunday belonged to Mara and Daniel: coffee at the same corner table, groceries, then lunch with whatever family needed them that week. It was how Mara knew that, beneath work and grown children, they were still choosing each other. Then Daniel begins spending those mornings helping his newly divorced colleague, Elise, look for a house. First he misses coffee. Then he tells Elise things he no longer tells Mara. By the time Mara learns he has called her someone who prefers quiet mornings, their marriage has already been rewritten without her consent. Mara does not hire a detective or hunt for proof. She stops waiting at their table. And when Daniel discovers that a life can be lost through a hundred ordinary choices, he has to decide whether he wants to be admired by a woman who needs him-or worthy of the wife he taught to live without him.