Envy is a literary fiction book by author Sandra Brown.
This novel begins when Maris Matherly-Reed receives a new manuscript for her to evaluate. She is a famous editor and owner of a very famous publishing house in NYC. She has a great relationship with her father, who opened the publishing house decades ago. She is married to Noah Reed, a famous writer who also works for a publishing company.
A trip to Georgia to meet the mysterious author takes her to a desolate, eerie cotton plantation.
Maris finds Parker Evans, a confined man in a wheelchair who has carefully concealed his past. Maris is drawn into his story of two friends renting boats with a young woman for a night of sex and drinking. Only one will return from that trip.
Confused about her sexual attraction to Parker and worried about her marriage to author and co-publisher Noah Reed, Maris returns to New York, where Parker’s distribution of the latest chapters convinces that they are not novels.
