Mary Bliss McGowan doesn’t realize her marriage is in trouble until the night she finds a note from her husband Parker telling her he’s gone—and taken all the family finances with him. A shocked Mary Bliss had thought everything was just peachy. Of course, there have been so many divorces on her block that the neighborhood is nicknamed Split City, and now she’s just one of the crowd. But there’s nothing usual about the way Mary Bliss handles this dilemma. With an expensive teenaged daughter, a ga-ga mother-in-law in the local nursing home, a big mortgage, and no dough, there’s only one thing for her to do: she stages Parker’s death and puts in a claim for the insurance money. Naturally, everything that can go wrong does.