Over His Dead Body: A Novel - Softcover

Hoping to put more excitement in her twenty-six-year marriage, Long Island housewife Cassandra Sales decides to get a face-lift to recapture her youthful glamour, but her surprise for her husband goes badly awry when he is incapacitated, a situation that reveals shocking secrets about her "perfect" marriage and sparks her own vengeful scheme. Reprint.

ghtfully infectious novel of love and intrigue, Leslie Glass puts a sly and sexy spin on two of life’s most devastating certainties: death and taxes.

Cassandra Sales is a woman with a gift for nurturing things—her husband, the successful wine importer; her two adult children; the fabulous flowers in her garden. After twenty-six years of marriage, however, Cassie’s husband, Mitch, is spending more time skipping abroad than remaining at home with her. Tired of being a modest Long Island housewife who can’t even remember what it’s like to be kissed, Cassie has a face-lift to recapture her youthful allure. The surprise for her husband goes awry when Mitch returns home early from a business trip. When he sees the post-op horror show, he collapses on the spot.

The resulting coma may spare Mitch from the tax audit he’s facing, but Cassie is forced to step in and research the facts of her own life. What she discovers about Mitch and the family busi