Kristin Billerbeck, The Trophy's Wives Club

The Trophy's Wives Club

Kristin Billerbeck

Avon, Sep 2007

ISBN: 9780061375460

Seven years ago Haley married Jay Cutler in what she naively thought was a love match to her Prince Charming. However, seven years later he no longer needs or wants her as his Trophy Wife; Jay walks out on Haley.

After she overcomes the initial shock of his rejection, Haley begins to think who she is beyond being Jays wife; to her chagrin, she comes up with nothing. She ponders what she can do, but has no marketable skills even for volunteer work as no one seems to need a smiling pretty woman that has no experiences beyond being a wife. Jay will not meet with Haley so she visits his lawyer, Hamilton Lowe, whose self-righteous holier than thou attitude upsets her. However, she heeds his only practical advice that she joins "The Trophy Wives Club", a Bible study group of women traded in by their husbands for newer models.

Although the relationship between Hamilton and Haley seems unnecessary, readers will appreciate this fine tale of a woman learning to crawl by doing things for the first time that most people take for granted. Haley makes the tale as she learns life is a T in which a person must know when to choose their side path and when to heed others advice, but never allow people to use love as blackmail to make the selection. THE TROPHY WIVES CLUB is a strong character driven inspirational tale that focuses on a woman learning how to live now that she is no longer on a mantle.

Harriet Klausner