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Random House
May 2011
On Sale: May 10, 2011
288 pages
ISBN: 030759209X
EAN: 9780307592095
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Non-Fiction Memoir
What would you do if, just weeks after your spouse's sudden
death, you found out he was keeping secrets? Big secrets.
Secrets that could cost you millions of dollars—and brand
you as a criminal. Innocent Spouse is an eye-opening memoir
that asks a provocative and disturbing question: Is it
possible to really know and trust someone, even your spouse?
Carol Ross Joynt was a successful television producer in
Washington, D.C. Her husband, Howard, owned Nathans, a
legendary restaurant in Georgetown. From an outsider’s
perspective, Carol and Howard lived a fairy-tale
life—spending weekends at their Chesapeake Bay estate,
rubbing shoulders with New York’s and Washington’s elite,
and raising their beloved son, Spencer. But everything
changed with Howard’s sudden death when Spencer was only
five years old.
Like any widow, Carol was devastated because she lost the
love of her life and her son’s father. But soon Carol had
much more to cope with than her grief and new life as a
single parent. As she was forced to take over her family’s
legal and financial responsibilities, as well as run
Howard’s restaurant on her own, Carol discovered that her
husband had secrets, and one of them, an almost $3 million
debt to the IRS, threatened to derail her entire life. And
even though Carol didn’t know anything about the tax
fraud—finances had always been Howard's department—no one
cared. As his surviving spouse, legally, Carol was responsible.
As Carol picks up the pieces of her fractured life and copes
with her sadness and anger, she learns to become something
she’d never been before: self-sufficient. Poignant,
eye-opening, and at times heartbreaking, Innocent Spouse is
ultimately an inspiring story of strength and newfound
independence in the face of loss and betrayal.
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