What happens after happily ever after? Author Irene Zutell's new novel answers the question -- while delivering belly-laughs and catch-in-your-throat emotion with equal measure. It's the story of Alice, a New Yorker adjusting to life in Los Angeles while raising a 5-year-old daughter and trying to keep a job. She holds it together until Alex, her attorney-husband, starts an affair with box-office queen Rose Maris. Soon, Alex's affair blazes in the tabloids while Alice sustains flash burns from paparazzi hoards depicting her as 'the dumped one.' Plunged into trash-gossip hell, Alice struggles to shield her child from the press while caring for her senile mother. The bonus hurdle: life in the San Fernando Valley, a bizarre place rife with porn stars, psycho soccer moms and nutty neighbors obsessed with transforming their Southwest ranch-homes into a yuletide Alpine village despite scorching desert heat. As the smoke clears and Alice inventories the rubble of her life, she desperately searches for a bearing and a course to plot. Is there a chance to wrest Alex from the Sexiest Woman Alive? And if... would she want him back? And what about Johnny, a walking charm-bomb who wants to be the new man in her life? Everyone in Hollywood has an agenda whats his? Alice will be forced to discover what she really wants from life, love and herself.
