At once a sophisticated love story and a psychological thriller, 'Lip Service' is both seductive and sinister. M.J. Rose has crafted an uninhibited narrative that builds to a shocking crescendo.
On the surface, Julia Sterling's life is enviable. She lives on Manhattan's tony east side, is married to a renowned psychiatrist, deeply loves her stepson and is forging her career as a journalist. When a writing job exposes Julia to phone sex, she glimpses a world that stirs her erotic fantasies but threatens her carefully constructed reality. As she probes her emotional and sexual connections to the men she knows and several she will never meet, she confronts evil, perversity and her own passions.
