The long summer holiday has begun on the campus of Edwards University in upstate New York.<p></p><p></p>Simone is the star of the creative writing department, a renowned scholar, successful memoirist and campus sex icon.<p></p><p></p>Ethan, her devoted husband, is a lecturer in the same department, though he hasn't published a novel since he was twenty-six.<p></p><p></p>Their marriage is long, strong and happy.<p></p><p></p>But, over the course of that aggressively hot summer break, both will stray.<p></p><p></p>And, as others become involved, new sides to the story of this apparently flawless marriage will emerge.<p></p><p></p>Deliciously smart and bitingly funny, Seduction Theory is a novel about love and betrayal, truth and fiction, power and attraction.