From #1New York Timesbestselling author Terry McMillan comes an honest look at a modern romance, from love at first sight to painful reality to working toward a happy ending….

Franklin Swift was a sometimes-employed construction worker and a not-quite-divorced dad of two. Zora Banks was a teacher, singer, and songwriter. They met in a Brooklyn brownstone, and there could be no walking away….

In this funny, gritty love story, Franklin and Zora join the ranks of fictions most compelling couples as they move from Scrabble to sex, from layoffs to the limits of faith and trust.Disappearing Actsis about the mystery of desire and the burdens of the past. Its about respectwhat it can and cant survive. And its about the safe and secret places that only love can find.