I recently finished Elizabeth Petty Bentley's What Was I Thinking? which I really liked. It's not a feel-good romance, but makes you think about relationships and our perceptions. I could talk to a fellow reader for hours about the characters and why the marriages failed. Check out my review.
This novel was originally published in 2002 and the author used the same concept, eternal marriage, as a major theme. Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints marry for all eternity in their temples. If they choose to marry outside the temple, they are married till death do you part. There is no such thing as a temple divorce though a petition can be made to the Prophet to have the marriage cancelled. It's the equivalent of having the Pope grant an annulment. It is not easy to get.
So I read this book about five years ago and I don't remember all the details. Temple is a sad person. She's lost custody of and contact with her daughters from her first marriage which was in the temple. She is divorced, but she is still married for all eternity. Along comes Q. They are friends and eventually it moves on to more. He is not a member of temple's church and he has no clue about temple marriage and Temple doesn't bother to enlighten him before or after they get married.
Q does not know about the daughters and he does not know that Temple's married for eternity to another man. Can you see where this is headed? How can a marriage survive with a secret like that in the background? Inevitably Q is going to find out, and he does.
While the story is well executed, it is a sad story about living with secrets. We all read books for a variety of reasons and a sad story can make us think and hopefully not make the same mistakes as the characters.
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