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In Reserve Two, the requirements of marriage come crashing down on Iris and Lily, now living thousands of miles apart, both determined to get the love and endorsement of their husbands and obtained families. The fairy-tale life Iris thought herself living in Italy is abruptly placed into target by her overprotective hubby, the well known anesthesiologist Gregorio Leale. Dottor Leale will not take kindly to alternative viewpoints or challenges to his expert and is also disturbed by shows of spontaneity and individualism, stifling Iris' budding sensuality and dampening her innate passion. Lily's circumstances as Mrs. Joe Diotallevi are even more daunting as she battles to comprehend the peculiar dynamic of the close-knit Diotallevi tribe and its own protectionist politics. Traditional principles distorted by ignorance dictate the simplistic rules of living which effectively condone Joe's burgeoning gambling habit and abusive tendencies, giving Lily dissatisfied as a woman, dismayed as a partner, and pinching pennies to settle the bills. Discouraged however, not thwarted in their quests for personal development, in their desire to see motherhood, in their dream of building a life with a guy who'll love and value them, Iris and Lily silently adhere to their alternatives despite occasions of despair and temptation, shamed by their Catholic upbringing, paralyzed by their concern with failing and rejection, in the hope a kinder future will uncover itself. Traveling back and forth between the Ligurian Riviera and Upstate New York, combined with the alternating voices of Iris and Lily, section by chapter you feel the closest confidante of both, delving into each woman's most seductive hopes and fears and learning more about her private predicaments than she feels comfortable uncovering to her faraway sister - or admitting to herself. Iris & Lily: Reserve Two is the next in a three-volume series. The complete novel is also available as Iris & Lily: The Complete Series.
