CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR

  CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR
  By Hallie Ephron
  William Morrow


     Does your spouse or significant other have a habit that annoys you or to put it more bluntly drives you crazy?  Emily Harlow certainly does.  She's a much in demand professional organizer  and her home is a mess - the attic, basement and garage filled to overflowing with her husband's "collectibles."  Seems the poor fellow is totally incapable of driving past a garage sale - he'll brake his car and with pounding heart buy everything in sight.  He tells Emily he just can't help it and some day all of his finds will be worth something.


    Emily tells her clients that they're only allowed to clean out their own stuff.  This thought has kept Emily's marriage together (sort of).  She's busy with two new clients - an older woman recently widowed whose husband left a storage unit she didn't know anything about.  The other client is Quinn, a young wife whose husband won't allow her stuff into their house - after three years all of her belongings are piled in their garage.   Quinn decides they need a glass of wine to discuss the problem and while Emily doesn't usually drink she accepts a glass and then another and another and a plot is hatched.

     Ah, but what is in the mysterious storage unit?  Almost unwittingly Emily soon finds herself in danger of losing not only her marriage but more importantly her life.

     As is her wont Hallie Ephron has crafted an unputdownable page turner that is carefully plotted and artfully delivered.  Enjoy!