Jen has been Richard's mistress for even longer. The opposite of Isla in looks and temperament, she offers Richard the chance to be someone completely different.

When a chance meeting brings the two women together, each is startled by the difference between them and forced to reevaluate the man they thought they knew. But after the shock waves of hostility have ebbed away, there begins an unlikely but enduring friendship that is to survive beyond a tragedy worse than either can imagine . . .