Market Street: A Novel

Cassie Blake is the heiress to Fenton's, San Francisco's most exclusive department store. When she discovers her husband Aidan, a UC Berkeley professor, has had an affair with a student, she leaves him and stays with her best friend Alexis in her Presidio Heights mansion, uncertain whether to reconcile. While wrestling with her marriage, Cassie faces another decision. Her mother asks her to oversee the opening of Fenton's new Food Emporium, intended to become San Francisco's premier gourmet shopping destination. Since food is Cassie's true passion rather than fashion, she wonders if her mother is using this opportunity to draw her into the family business. Complicating matters further is James, the architect designing the Emporium, who is developing feelings for her.