The Liability of Love

A new novel from award-winning author Susan Schoenberger.

Margaret Carlyle is searching for an epic love as she heads to college in 1979 after the loss of her beloved mother to cancer. When a charismatic boy named Anders rapes her on their first date, she wants nothing more than to forget it ever happened. But as the years pass, each life decision she makes seems driven by what happened that night. Margaret can no longer ignore her past when Anders becomes famous as an actor. She is forced to make choices that will affect everyone around her, most notably, her husband Douglas and Fitz, the man who has loved her patiently since college.

This deeply moving novel examines what happens when we try to bury the past as well as the consequences of confronting it. Along the way, it looks at class and privilege, the mysteries of marriage, and the destructive power of secrets.

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