In 5 Reasons to Leave a Lover, author Carolyn Moncel offers
up a fresh batch of stories based on love and loss. As
singer/songwriter, Paul Simon so eloquently suggested in a
famous song from the 1970s, there are many ways to leave a
lover. However, Moncel's characters demonstrate that the
reasons for leaving in the first place are quite finite.
Encounters in Paris` Ellery and Julien Roulet return,
picking up their lives where the short story, "Pandora`s Box
Revisited," ends. This time the Roulets are involved in a
love triangle, and along with two other couples, must
explore how love relationships are affected and splinter due
to abuse, ambivalence, deception, cheating and death. This
bittersweet collection of tales proves that some breakups
are necessary; while others are voluntary; and still others
are simply destined and beyond anyone's control.