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David Hughes is about to become a summer bachelor. His wife and children have departed for the cool mountains, leaving him alone in the sweltering city for eight weeks. For the first time in his nine-year marriage, he has both the motive and the opportunity to stray. And across the hall lives Janice Keller, a beautiful young blonde whose husband is stationed three thousand miles away.
As the summer heat intensifies, so does David’s obsession. He tells himself he is owed this, that his wife’s growing coldness has driven him to it. But the line between a casual fling and a genuine emotional entanglement blurs quickly. What begins as a calculated act of rebellion against a stale marriage becomes a dangerous game of passion, guilt, and self-discovery that threatens to consume him entirely.
Robert Silverberg has won five Nebula Awards, four Hugo Awards, and the prestigious Prix Apollo. He is the author of more than one hundred science fiction and fantasy novels -- including the best-selling Lord Valentine trilogy and the classics Dying Inside and A Time of Changes -- and more than sixty nonfiction works. Among the sixty-plus anthologies he has edited are Legends and Far Horizons, which contain original short stories set in the most popular universe of Robert Jordan, Stephen King, Ursula K. Le Guin, Gregory Benford, Greg Bear, Orson Scott Card, and virtually every other bestselling fantasy and SF writer today. Mr. Silverberg's Majipoor Cycle, set on perhaps the grandest and greatest world ever imagined, is considered one of the jewels in the crown of speculative fiction.
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