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A psychologist has always upheld the highest ethical standards, but falls for a charming colleague. When she discovers that  he is a sexual predator, can she expose his malpractice without blowing up her own career?

Dr. Rina Kalman is burned out at work and doom-scrolling about ticking biological clocks. She ended a painful, long-distance relationship with a psychiatrist, Philippe, only to find he has moved nearby and is hawking a self-help book, The Paleo Dyad, with his new wife. Adding to Rina’s angst, her patient, ballet dancer Lilah, is inexplicably hostile. Lilah is a volatile survivor of childhood sexual abuse, but has qualities Rina envies: unusual beauty, a baby on the way, and a tech mogul husband.

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After in-session tensions climax, Lilah confesses that she has been testing Rina’s trustworthiness before enlisting her help. Philippe had sex with Lilah during therapy in the guise of “treating” her sexual problems. To make Lilah jealous, he revealed details about his sex life with Rina. After Lilah files a complaint against Philippe with the medical board, Rina must testify to corroborate Lilah’s story. To Rina’s dismay, Lilah’s malpractice attorney checks all the boxes on her updated, husband wishlist. Can Rina and Lilah unite to get Philippe’s license revoked? Or will they become his ultimate victims when he devises a plan to silence them for good?

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Golden Pearls

A Novel

Were you amazed that the forty-five-year-old heroine of All Fours could embark on a sexual odyssey at her age? Get into position for seventy-year-old Julia Klein, who is struggling to live her best sex life despite having metastatic breast cancer.

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Julia’s Big Island vacation is intended to celebrate retiring as chief of internal medicine at her hospital. She buys an extravagant strand of South Sea pearls as a promise to start indulging herself. But the return of her breast cancer was not on the itinerary and her dating partner quickly jumps ship.

At age seventy, Julia still enjoys boomer sex and sea kayaking. She has plans to carry out. Her astrophysicist son often seems lost in space, but is starting IVF with his wife, Dana. Julia longs for a grandchild and hopes to connect with her prickly daughter-in-law. Dana, however, is still coming to terms with her own neglectful mother. Julia's best friend Natalie is losing the medical research funding that has kept her going after her husband’s death. Julia wants to fix Natalie's life, too, not realizing that closing her lab, and even widowhood, are not the only losses her friend is processing.

As Julia struggles to absorb the news of her finite future, she encounters an old friend from residency days. Jerry has been carrying a torch for Julia all this time. Knowing that Julia takes care of everyone else, Jerry is determined to nurture her. Now she must learn to let love in before it is too late.