Careful What You Wish For

From the New York Times bestselling author of There Was an Old Woman comes a novel about a professional organizer with a deadly problem she may not be able to clean up.Emily Harlow is a professional organizer who helps people declutter their lives, shes married to man who cant drive past a yard sale without stopping. Hes filled their basement, attic, and garage with his finds. Like other professionals who make a living decluttering peoples lives, Emily has devised a set of ironclad rules. When working with couples, she makes clear that the client is only allowed to declutter his or her own stuff. That stipulation has kept Emilys own marriage together these past few years. Shed love nothing better than to toss out all her husbands crap. He says hes a collector. Emily knows betterhes a hoarder. The larger his collection becomes, the deeper the distance grows between Emily and the man she married.Luckily, Emilys got two new clients to distract herself: an elderly widow whose husband left behind a storage unit she didnt know existed, and a young wife whose husband wont allow her stuff into their house. Emilys initial meeting with the young wife takes a detour when, after too much wine, the women end up fantasizing about how much more pleasant life would be without their collecting spouses. But the next day Emily finds herself in a mess that might be too big for her to clean up. Careful what you wish for, the old adage says . . . now Emily might lose her freedom, her marriage . . . and possibly her life.