The Perfect Marriage

By Kimberla Lawson Roby

Book Overview

The New York Times bestselling novel from the author of the Reverend Curtis Black series... ADDICTION. DECEPTION. PRETTY PICTURES HIDE UGLY SECRETS. Denise and Derrek Shaw are the perfect American couple. Happily married for fifteen years, they have a wonderful daughter, Mackenzie, successful careers, and a beautiful home in a posh Chicago suburb. They are attractive, respected . . . and hiding a shocking secret: a dangerous addiction to drugs. It started innocently enough. Denise occasionally used prescription drugs to help her deal with the long hours and demanding nature of her job. Derrek, also under pressure at work, began using cocaine socially with some of his colleagues. They can quit whenever they want to. At least, that's what Denise would like to believe . . . As her job becomes more stressful, Denise can no longer get through the day without a fix. Derrek realizes his harmless habit has become anything but, and desperately wants to get clean. However, his attempts are derailed when there is a sudden family tragedy. Once soul mates, now this husband and wife are quickly losing the immense love that had been the cornerstone of their marriage. With her parents spiraling out of control, Mackenzie makes an unexpected move to take matters into her own hands. Is her sacrifice too late-or is there still hope? Is there a final chance to save the Shaw family?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446572500
• ISBN13: 9780446572507
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

The Perfect Marriage, wow

This was really difficult read for me! Such explicit details about the use of substance abuse, but I kept reading because you just kept wanting to know what would happen next? I was surprised to see that everybody except Denise's decided to make a healthy changes, but I was completely shocked to see that their daughter would go to such extremes to get her parents to make a change, wow........I'm not sure that I would recommend this book to an addict because in the earlier chapters it just might trigger relapse? And I'm not sure that I would recommend this book to somebody who isn't an addict because it just might trigger some things in them? To sum it up, this read really tore away at me........as someone who has not ever experienced such, addiction is not ever a pretty thing, i was on the edge of my seat most of the time during this read, but strictly for review purposes, Kimberla can certainly create/tell a story