Irony In Eden - Paperback

by Bill Willis (Author)

The Irony of Eden is about the complex lives of an African American couple who move into an exclusive, predominantly white, community in northern New Jersey, believing that the idyllic environment would provide the perfect setting to focus upon the advancement of their respective careers. As beguiling as The Park appeared to its new arrivals, the young couple could not have imagined the ways in which the demons that haunted their neighbors in this exclusive enclave would ensnare them in a web of life-altering choices and test the fragile bonds of their marriage.

Kendra Robinson is a kick-ass attorney who leads the cyber-crime division of a prestigious and powerful international law firm. Her husband, an aspiring architect, is engrossed in a competition for a prestigious design prize while trying to ignore the powerful temptation to give in to the subtle pursuit of the beautiful blonde intern he has hired to assist him.

Kendra finds her professional ambitions challenged by the circumstances confronting her new neighbors and her need to support the aspirations of her talented husband. While struggling to preserve her young marriage, pursue a cyber-criminal, and shatter the glass ceiling at her firm, Kendra is drawn, by a distraught neighbor, into her heart-wrenching trauma upon learning that a recent lover withheld the fact that he had a permanent STD.

The specter of an interracial affair assails the foundation of Kendra's young marriage. Love, murder, greed, competition, and a mother who would do anything for her child, reveals human vulnerabilities and challenges the strengths of those who reside in the Eden of West Orange.

Tender moments of passionate love, mystery, humor, hope, disappointment, and triumph are intertwined in the story of an ambitious lawyer who is drawn into the entanglements of her new-found neighbors, yet manages, ultimately, to find a kind of personal peace amid the chaos.