“Four hours. She’s up sixty points and nobody’s taken off so much as a cardigan.”
From Chapter 16, “Fault, Adultery, and Lifestyle Clauses,” of The Marriage Contract, 2027, which reads the law of marriage as the prenup every married couple already has.
Nighttime. Behind a suburban hedge, a private investigator in a trench coat points a long-lens camera at a lit window. In the living room, a man and a woman, fully clothed, are playing a board game. Another investigator, holding a thermos, looks at a watch.
