Ruth Pratchett discovers her husband is having a passsionate affair with romantic novelist, Mary Fisher, and is so seized by envy that she embarks on a course of destruction which brings her an amazing reward and those around her their just deserts.

           This is not a book for everyone, but its admirers are vigorously enthusiastic. For example: Rhoda Koenig in New York Magazine, who calls it "a novel of blazingly hot revenge, one that amply illustrates the saying about heaven having no rage like love turned to hate, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned." Or Rosalyn Drexler, who said on the front page of The New York Times Book Review, "It affords a scintillating, mindboggling, vicarious thrill for any reader who has ever fantasized dishing out retribution for one wrong or another."