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BUT WHEN SHE WAS BAD... is a powerful journey through one man's mind -- a man who is finally pushed to the point where he says, No. Enough. Now I will fight back. A memoir-like accounting of love, betrayal, and revenge, the novel tells of the star-crossed meeting of a man, a woman, their marriage, divorce, and their deadly struggle for custody of a child. As the novel opens, Gil Wexler, the narrator, has learned that his wife betrayed him in a sordid affair some years before. Now he must face the question, Is my son really my son? The DNA testing of his four-year-old boy, Todd, will take nine days. Which is just enough time, he tells us, to relate the story of the seemingly sweet, attractive young woman who has so changed his life. A widower with three young children when he was ensnared by Annie White's charms, Wexler calmly, dispassionately relates the course of their marriage. Then, a chance discovery leads him to a profoundly shocking realization: mere months after their marriage, Annie White made sure that no one could legitimately share Todd with her. Gil plots a strategy of revenge which is every bit as cunning as Annie's own betrayal, for he is determined to both reclaim his son and to exact some payback of his own. LOU PEDDICORD has worked in journalism and advertising.