Saving Their Relationship

Heather is twenty-eight, blonde, and married to a man who used to make her knees weak across restaurant tables. Robert is handsome, successful, and completely in love with his wife.He just can't get hard for her anymore.Eleven months. That's how long it's been since her husband last touched her the way she needed. Eleven months of lingerie bought in Chelsea boutiques and hidden in drawers like contraband. Eleven months of candles and wine and kneeling on thick carpet until her jaw ached and her mascara ran and nothing, nothing, nothing. Eleven months of him apologising and her saying it was fine when it wasn't fine, when it was so far from fine she was starting to wonder if love was enough to keep her in this quiet, beautiful house.She loves him. That's the problem. That's why leaving isn't an option.But there's a solution her friends keep whispering over Saturday bellinis in Soho. A way wives like Heather have saved husbands like Robert. Something about biology, about jealousy, about watching. Something about the way a man's body remembers how to want when he sees another man taking what should be his.Something about the young personal trainer at her gym in Canary Wharf who has been looking at her for four months. Six-five. Twenty-six. Built like every dirty thought she's tried not to have. A man whose hand on the small of her back makes her forget her own name.Her husband knows what he searches for when he thinks she's asleep.She knows too.Now Heather has to ask him the most dangerous question a wife can ask. And when she opens her mouth in the warm candlelight of their kitchen, when she tells him exactly what she needs and exactly how she wants it and exactly who she wants to give it to her, she has to watch her husband's face do something she has never seen before.Something that isn't horror.Something that looks a lot like hunger.Saving Their Relationship is a tender, filthy, devastatingly honest love story about a marriage in crisis and the woman brave enough to fight for it. About a wife who refuses to waste her best years gathering dust. About a husband who discovers that the thing he thought would destroy him might be the only thing that can save him. About the strange, electric territory a couple enters when they stop pretending and start telling the truth.It's about doorbells at eight o'clock and wingback chairs at the foot of the bed. About white lingerie and red lipstick and the first kiss of the evening and the first kiss afterwards. About love that is big enough to bend without breaking.She married him forever. She just never imagined forever would look like this.And neither did he.