Donald, an optician in suburban Boston, rests assured that he and his wife Viv will live out quiet lives with their two children. Then Mercury - a gorgeous young racehorse - enters their lives and everything changes. Viv dreams of competing with Mercury. But her daydreams soon morph into consuming desire, and her infatuation with the thoroughbred quickly escalates to obsession. A beautifully crafted, riveting novel about the ways in which relationships can be disrupted and, ultimately, destroyed by obsession, secrets and ever-escalating lies.
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