Description: I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current.

So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. Four years earlier, in 1903, Mamah and her husband, Edwin, had commissioned the renowned architect to design a new home for them. During the construction of the house, a powerful attraction develops between Mamah and Frank, and in time, the lovers, each married with children, embark on a course that will shock Chicago society and forever change their lives.

In this ambitious debut novel, fact and fiction blend together brilliantly in the extraordinary story of Mamah Borthwick Cheney and Frank Lloyd Wright. While scholars in the past have considered Mamah a footnote in the study of America's greatest architect, author Nancy Horan brings to life their dramatic love story, and illuminates Cheney's profound influence on Wright.

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