title: The Forever Marriage: A novel
author:  Ann Bauer 
description: "Funny, surprising and gratifyingly honest, this novel poses unsparing questions about love and betrayal and the reasons we make the choices we do." --<i>MORE</i> magazine <br /><br />"With lovely prose and fine pacing, Bauer offers a sensitive portrait of a flawed woman coming to terms with a lifetime of regrets." --<i>Publishers Weekly </i>(starred review) <br /><br />"Bauer and <i>The Forever Marriage</i> poignantly and powerfully illustrate the great and often tragic ironies of life." --<i>Minneapolis Star Tribune</i>
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  Immortal In Death
  
  
  
  
  
  By J. D. Robb  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # CHAPTER ONE
  
  
  
  
  
  Getting married was murder. Eve wasn’t sure how it had happened in the first
  place. She was a cop, for God’s sake. Throughout her ten years on the force,
  she’d firmly believed cops should stay single, unencumbered, and focused
  utterly on the job. It was insane to believe one person could split time,
  energy, and emotion between law, with all its rights and wrongs, and family,
  with all its demands and personalities.
  
  
  
  
  
  Both careers — and from what she’d observed, marriage was a job — had
  impossible demands and hellish hours. It might have been 2058, an enlightened
  time of technological advancement, but marriage was still marriage. To Eve it
  translated to terror.
  
  
  
  
  
  Yet here she was on a fine day in high summer — one of her rare and precious
  days off — preparing to go shopping. She couldn’t stop the shudder.
  
  
  
  
  
  Not just shopping, she reminded herself as he