News bulletin: Gone is HBO’s Sex and the City. Sex
has moved to the suburbs. Here is where you’ll find ABC’s
#1 TV show Desperate Housewives. Here too is THE
SECRET LIVES OF FORTUNATE WIVES, a hilarious but poignant
and spot-on novel about love and betrayal inside the world
of the gated community.
Pampered Hunting Hills, Ohio, socialite Marti Denton never
realized she was madly in love with John Harding until he
impulsively married Claire Stark, a beautiful but socially
awkward newspaper reporter to whom a "coming-out" party is
a controversy, not a tradition. It’s not until the Hunting
Hills wives are plunged into a series of explosive scandals
that the two women reach a new understanding of each other
and what it means to be a fortunate wife in the twenty-
first century.