Elizabeth Buchan

Her happy marriage and successful career falling apart after twenty-five years, Rose Lloyd struggles with the prospect of starting over until the reappearance of an old flame.

What happens when the mistress becomes the wife? Minty Lloyd is now the second wife to her husband, Nathan--but she is shunned by his friends, despised by his grown children, and haunted by her very much alive, and quite reborn, predecessor Rose. Yet after a shocking phone call, Minty finds herself united with an unexpected ally--the woman she once betrayed.--From publisher description.

An Englishwoman embarks on an affair with her husband's son-in-law. It happens when Prue Valour is visited by Violet, her husband's daughter from a previous marriage. Violet does not like Prue, but her husband does and they are the same age.