When Layne Emerson’s son Robbie breaks his ankle in a Little League game, Layne — out of a job — can’t pay Robbie’s medical bills. And she can’t refuse the assistance offered by Robbie’s father, her estranged husband Kyle.
But Kyle puts a different sort of price tag on his help — and Layne isn’t sure she can afford that, either.
An “accidental historical” is a book which was contemporary at the time it was written, but the passage of time has turned it into a classic period piece (e.g., before cell phones, Uber, no-smoking laws, and many modern attitudes).