Adler is an author of many books. It looks like the most well known is The War of Roses. Random Hearts is a motion picture.
In the story a married woman had an affair with a married man. They were both very careful and thought their spouses would not find out. Unfortunately their flight to a stolen holiday ended as a tragic wreck in the Potomic River. Since they were traveling under fictitious names, their bodies were kept for days before their identities were traced. Meanwhile, their respective faithful spouses suffered.
The book dealt in details how this man and woman reacted to their respective spouses' deceit. In the end, something good came out of the tragedy. They developed feelings for each other and decided to face the future as a couple.
Normally, a widow faced her grief at her husband's death. This particular widow was overwhelmed by her anger at being cheated for more than a year. Similarly, the widower had to deal with grief as well as anger. For him, it was worse. He found that his deceased wife chose to conceive a child with her lover. It really hurt him as she had refused to have a child with him for many years. The flip side of love is hate. The book ended as heroine decided to forgive the deceitful deceased male.
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