Running With Our Eyes Closed - Mel Greenberg

Samantha's nest is empty now, and she's not sure about much of anything - life in Dallas, marriage, happiness, the future. How had she ended up here - wondering who she was, what she wanted from her life now

"But not one aha! moment -- not a single incident that would suggest disrupting your life of twenty-some odd years was an obvious or necessary choice. No, it creeps up on you, one day at a time, while you're busy living. You hear your voice, at first a whisper, begging you to listen. 'Where have you gone?"

She heads to Italy in search of answers, prepared to leave the last twenty-five years of her life behind. Connecting with her husband, Michael, proves to be more than she'd bargained for. Samantha soon discovers he has secrets and an agenda of his own that could change their lives forever. Life has had its way with them and nothing is quite what they'd imagined it would be.

Over seven days in one of the most romantic countries in the world, Samantha faces the past she thought she had overcome and begins to redefine her role as a woman, wife and mother.