The Everyday Housewife: Murder, Drugs, and Ironing

When thirty-eight-year-old housewife Katharine Beaumont learns that her husband Frank has had an affair, she snaps. Leaving behind her two ungrateful teenagers and her cheating husband, Katharine boards a Greyhound bus from Oklahoma City headed for New York City, where she plans to fulfill her lifelong dream of becoming a bestselling novelist.Once off the bus and wandering through the streets of Manhattan, Katharine feels completely lost and vulnerable in her strange, new world-much like her slightly younger and sexier alter ego, Kitty Everhart, who works for British Intelligence in her novel and is suddenly shipwrecked on a deserted island with seven other castaways.Katharine quickly adapts to her new environment and is determined to survive. She meets a quirky cast of characters-from a murder-for-hire bartender to a mob boss and a drug dealer. She and her new friend, Bree, become involved in an adventure made for one of Katharine's novels.The Everyday Housewifepresents a darkly humorous look at what happens when a career housewife learns to navigate in a new and unfamiliar world.