Better Betrayal

Better Betrayal and Other Stories delves into the darkest parts of these four women's lives. Each one betrays or is betrayed by someone the love. In Dishes, Mary Jo is betrayed by her husband. She is unsure of what to do when she discovers his many indiscretions. Eventually, she takes a lover and plans to run away. Will her plans be ruined when Mary Jo and her husband Jeffery have an argument while she is doing dishes? Will resist the temptation to murder him or will it be her undoing? In Better Betrayal, Valerie divorces her abusive ex-husband. When she leaves him, she finds a stolen Indian artifact among her things, which brings her nothing but trouble. The question becomes whose betrayal—Will's betrayal of the Native Americans, Will's betrayal to Valerie or Valerie's betrayal of Will—is the worst. In Naomi the Nemesis, all of Naomi's ex-boyfriends are ending up dead. Is it Naomi who is killing them off or has someone betrayed her and set her up to take the fall? FBI agent Jane Patrick is on the case. And finally, In Spread Your Wings, Kristin frees herself from her controlling husband Karl with the help of her pregnant friend Maddy. But it is only with her professor's help that she learns to spread her wings and learn to fly