Written in Lauren K. Denton's signature Southern style, The One
You're With tells the story of a seemingly perfect marriage rocked by
secrets from the past.
High-school sweethearts Mac and Edie Swan lead a seemingly
picture-perfect life in the sleepy-sweet community of Oak Hill, near
Mobile, Alabama. Edie is a respected interior designer, Mac is a beloved
pediatrician, and they have two great kids and a historic home on
tree-lined Linden Avenue. From the outside, the Swan family is the
definition of "the good life." And life is good--mostly. Until a young
woman walks into Mac's office one day. A young woman whose very
existence threatens all Mac and Edie have built and all they think they
know about each other.
Nineteen years after a summer apart, with a family and established lives
and careers, the past that Mac and Edie thought they left behind has
come back to greet them. For the first time, constants in their lives
are called into question: their roles as parents, their reputation as
upstanding members of the community, and the very foundations of their
marriage. As they wade through the upheaval in both their family and
professional lives, they must each examine choices they made long ago
and chart a new course for their future.
- Full-length Southern women's fiction
- Stand-alone novel
- Book length: 116,000 words
- Includes discussion questions for book clubs
