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Celestial and Roy have only been married a bit over a year when he’s found guilty of a crime. Roy isn’t a saint. Celestial discovers he’s already cheated on her on their first anniversary. But he is innocent of the crime.

In the blink of an eye, they go from living “that Huxtable life�� to Roy being in prison.

The author gets certain things exactly right, like being caught between a parent and a spouse. And how little we really know about our spouse when we go into marriage. Prison forces Celestial and Roy to write each other and in writing, they initially give up their secrets. They’re forced to communicate. But then they don’t. Or rather, they don’t understand where the other is coming from. These two have problems with a capital P.

The meat of the story really rings true. We can’t predict how things will turn out for us. Bad things happen and we are forced to deal with them, deserved or not. Jones has a definite voice. I can’t say for sure whether the way the main characters speak is realistic, but it sure seems that way to me. And her writing was amazing. “She let her fingers roam around my body, as dainty as a firefly but with healing in her hands like a storefront preacher.��

This is a hard story. Another reviewer described this as raw and that’s a very apt description. I felt all sorts of emotions for both Roy and Celestial. I loved what this book had to say about marriage. I had no idea how this would end but I was very pleased at the ending.