The Suggestion

What if the most dangerous thing in your marriage wasn’t betrayal—but honesty?On an ordinary Thursday night, Penelope LeBlanc asks her husband, Jack, if he’d ever consider opening their marriage. It’s not a trap. It’s not a fantasy. It’s a question meant to name what they’ve both stopped saying aloud.Jack doesn’t say no.And the unraveling begins—not with an affair, but with an invitation.Told through shifting perspectives, voicemails, tarot spreads, and interludes from those circling the couple, The Suggestion is a psychologically intimate, structurally daring novel about emotional risk, erotic permission, and the wreckage we create when we refuse to speak what we want.This isn’t a story about non-monogamy.It’s about what happens when curiosity becomes confession.When performance becomes ritual.When silence becomes the sharpest form of harm.Set in modern-day New Orleans and threaded with desire, voyeurism, and consequence, The Suggestion is for readers of Lisa Taddeo, Sally Rooney, and Carmen Maria Machado—those drawn to fiction that unflinchingly dissects power, want, and what it means to be seen.It’s not a reunion story.It’s not about forgiveness.It’s about the fracture point.And what grace might still exist in its aftermath.Part of a shared literary universe alongside The Marriage Audit and One Last Verse, The Suggestion can be read as a standalone—but its echoes linger across other lives, other silences, other women who learned too late that love doesn’t always mean staying.