The Half Moon

The latest novel by best-selling Keane (Ask Again, Yes) takes readers into a marriage that is struggling. Jess and Malcolm Gephardt married when she got pregnant, but she lost that baby. Jess ends up undergoing years of infertility treatments and IVF, which is immensely frustrating and expensive. Jess is an attorney but doesn’t love her job, only the paycheck that comes with it. Meanwhile, Malcolm has purchased the bar where he’s worked for over 20 years, but he neglects to tell Jess that he also bought the building on a handshake deal with his old boss, which proves to be problematic. Everything comes to a head one week in the couple’s small town, when a blizzard hits and everyone loses power, one of the bar’s regulars goes missing, Malcolm is overwhelmed with money problems, and worst of all, Jess leaves him for another man. These events beg the question: Can this marriage be saved?