Lauri is a stay at home mom who was overwhelmed enough with a three year old and a new baby on the way. When she finds out her husband was cheating on her, she doesn't tell anyone, not even her best friend Alex.
Alex's marriage isn't perfect either but she's never confided in anyone about it and she's not about to start now.
Together they go about their everyday lives raising their children. Separately, Lauri attempts to fix her marriage and Alex struggles to decide what to do about hers. Neither realizes their choices are intertwined. Until it's too late.
After feeding her addiction to reading for close to forty years (Not too many engineering majors choose a literature minor) Amanda decided to try writing and quickly found that writing was a far bigger weakness for her than reading ever was. "Mistakes" was Amanda's first novel. Before "Mistakes" she wrote two screenplays which to date have not been considered by anyone for anything but she found the experience invaluable.
In addition to writing and reading, Amanda also loves downhill skiing, cross stitching and working out, specifically running, Stronglifts and DDP Yoga. She lives in New England with her wonderful husband of twenty-four years and her two children, ages twelve and nine, who are also wonderful (mostly). She enjoys being a stay at home mom, except on the days she does not.