Husbands and Lovers

Million copy NYT bestseller

Winner, Best Contemporary, Romantic Times

New! Revised Author's Edition


A lonely wife. A handsome lover. A jealous husband. A gun in a Tiffany bag.



The Married Woman—When Carlys Webber’s marriage to millionaire Kirk Arnold falters, will she risk everything for the excitement of a brief affair?



The Single Woman—Wildly stylish fashion executive, Jade Mullen survives deception and divorce, but when she falls in love again, is she doomed to another betrayal?



The Husband—Wealthy tycoon, Kirk Arnold, achieves one dazzling success after another, but will his marriage survive a deadly legacy?



The Lover—Architect George Kouras rises from humble beginnings to the top of his profession. When he and Jade fall deeply in love, they think they have invented a new way to live happily ever after, but have they?



Set in high-powered executive suites and elegant Park Avenue apartments, in modest, ethnic neighborhoods and sedate suburbs, Husbands and Lovers is about four unforgettable characters losing—and finding—themselves in the gritty 1970s and glitzy 1980s.



"Sharply and stylishly written. Harris writes with intellect, insight and humor." —Chicago Sun-Times



"A contemporary tale of passion and commitment. Steamy, fast-paced, you will be spellbound. Harris is an insightful writer and her empathy for her women, especially the ugly duckling who makes herself into a swan adds a satisfying obbligato of reality." —Cosmopolitan



"Harris relates the games of love and war in a fast-forward, high octane style, resurrecting the nervous Seventies through a welter of accurate detail, from the clothes and books and other cultural artifacts to the sexual mores of the period. A dead-on accurate social critic, Harris has capture the feel of being young and hungry and ambitious in New York. Husbands And Lovers explores this changing dynamic of the dance between the sexes as few popular novels have done before. Deserves a large audience." —New Woman Book Club



"Harris is dangerously close to moving beyond the reef that separates the lagoon of popular fiction from deeper waters. Her prose is sharp, her eye keen. With a pen like the rapier of Zorro, she slashes across the breeches of characters whose foibles she exposes." —Christian Science Monitor


All five books in the Park Avenue Series are available at iBooks. Husbands And Lovers is Book #2.



Love And Money (Book #1)—Rich girl, poor girl. Sisters and strangers until murder—and the handsome, brilliant man they both love—bring them face to face in a searing confrontation. “Richly plotted. First-class entertainment!” —NY Times "Fast-paced, superior fiction. A terrifically satisfying 'good read.'" —Fort Lauderdale News Sun-Sentinel



Decades (Book # 3)—This bestselling classic is the compelling story of a marriage at risk, a family in crisis and a woman on the brink set against the tumultuous decades of the mid-twentieth century. "Absolutely perfect." —Publisher's Weekly "Terrific!" —Cosmopolitan “Powerful! A gripping novel." —Women Today Book Club



Modern Women (Book # 4)—Million-copy NYT bestseller! Three delightful, dynamic women—and the men in their lives. The right men. The wrong men. The maybe men. "Funny, sad, vivid, and raunchy. Harris seeks to enliven and entertain, and she does it in spades." —Cleveland Plain-Dealer "Ruth Harris's rapier wit spices up a superb 'rags to riches' novel. You'll love Modern Women." —West Coast Review of Books "Sharp and stylishly written." —Chicago Sun-Times



The Last Romantics (Book # 5)—A sweeping love story set in Paris and New York during the champagne-fizzed Jazz Age of the 1920's. He is dashing, handsome and celebrated but dangerously flawed. She is a gifted fashion designer who has the world at her feet. She is beautiful, charming, lonely, haunted. "I love it, I love it! Fantastic, immensely readable." —Cosmopolitan "Gloriously romantic!" —Kirkus