Interlude

Their perfect marriage was on the rocks

Ironically, Birch and Julia Cheney had been in Paris celebrating a blissful five years together when Birch was called back to New York, only to be blackmailed by his father into promising something that betrayed everything he and his wife believed in.

As if that weren't enough, Birch lost his sight in a mugging. The official diagnosis: hysterical blindness, sightlessness triggered by physical trauma but psychologically induced....

Suddenly frustrations and secrets sprung up in the Cheney marriage. Each prayed it was an interlude, that soon they would be celebrating the wonders of their relationship once more... .