The Arrangement

Ainsley Greenburg fixes things, and she is proud of it. When she sees that her marriage to Peter is close to breaking, she decides to repair it whatever the price. Her answer is an open marriage.

She expects the hard part to be raising the idea with Peter. He agrees almost at once. Two rules govern the arrangement: each of them dates someone new once a week, and neither ever discusses what happens on those dates.

The rules do not hold. Mistakes follow, and then consequences far worse than either of them planned for. The only person either can rely on to keep the darkest secret is the spouse they no longer fully trust, and fresh questions and lies start to surface.

This is a domestic thriller about a marriage under strain, told with a dark and suspicious tone. Years of accumulated deceit sit beneath the present danger, and Peter and Ainsley each begin to doubt whether staying together can last. Their wedding vow, until death do them part, starts to look less like a promise and more like a threat.