Midnight Lemonade by Ann Goethe; 1993. Hardcover. (Signed by Author)

Katherine Pierson, raised in the isolation of a Mississippi River town and educated in a convent school, careens into adulthood when she marries a man twelve years her senior. Nothing in her sheltered past prepares her for marriage, the subsequent responsibilities of motherhood, and the slow death of her warm, intelligent, spirited self. And when she decides to leave behind all that she knows, to grasp at a passion she has never known, nothing prepares her for the painful choice she will have to make.