Lightning

A woman's idyllic life--child, career, successful husband--ends with breast cancer. The protagonist is Alexandra Parker, a New York lawyer who suddenly finds her husband doesn't want a woman who is sick. Fortunately others do, even if she has gone bald from treatment. As a partner at one of New York's most prestigious law firms, Alexandra Parker barely manages to juggle husband, career, and the three-year-old child she gave birth to at forty. But lex feels blessed with her life and happy marriage-until lightning streikes her. Suddenly a routine checkup turns her world upside down when tests reveal shattering news Alexandra Parker, a partner at one of New York's most prestigious law firms, finds her successful career and long-time marriage turned upside down by a shattering medical misdiagnosis, while her retiree husband is haunted by his own ghosts and a career disaster, as he seeks a recall to his former workplace The voices droned around the conference room as Alexandra Parker stretched long legs beneath the huge mahogany table.