Nobody can completely disappear anymore. The internet and social media have made it more or less impossible. So past lovers might not stay gone, no matter how you parted from them, no matter how long ago.

I hadn’t seen or heard from Josh since Christmas Day almost five years ago. Before my marriage to Charles, he’d been the one true love of my life.

We had tried to make it work. He’d been as stuck on me as I was on him, and our relationship had been intense and all-consuming. He had imprinted himself on my soul.

And of course the sex had been outrageously fantastic. He was impossible to forget.

I needed only to close my eyes and nudge my memory to conjure the shape of him in my mind, his muscular hardness and the tender touch of his hands. He was the first boyfriend I wanted... Read More