Seduction turns to murder when a group of friends tries to help end the misery of divorce-minded wives.
When the Wednesday lunch group at Odette's succeeds in freeing one of their own from an ironclad prenup, they think they've got all the makings for a grand seduction scheme.
When second thoughts come in the form of a bullet, however, four women learn that if the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, questionable ones lead somewhere even worse.
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“He’s going to have an affair with Ridelle...because we’re going to set him up to think so.”
“Set him up?” Twyla gave Dominique a look as if her lettuce wrap had just regurgitated a potato beetle. “That’s cheating.”
“No, cheating is what Bruce has done to Fran already. We’re just going to schedule his next episode for our Kodak convenience.”
In a post-coup America, an Illinois farm boy is drawn into the resistance by his brother's death. Captured, he is given a choice: betray his friends, or the girl he loves will be lobotomized.
