Bad Marie

Marie, who was tall, voluptuous, beautiful, and thirty years old, finished her six-year sentence for murder and armed robbery a few days before Christmas. Her childhood friend Ellen Kendall was an upwardly mobile Manhattan executive whose mother had employed Marie's mother as a housekeeper. But she couldn't get a job on the outside; the only thing she could find was to be the nanny of Caitlin Kendall. The problem was that Benoit Doniel, who was French and a novelist, also came to stay with them when Marie started flirting with him and Caitlin. She also fell in love with Benoit Doniel. One day she took Caitlin and Benoit Doniel away with her to Paris without telling anyone where they were going. She would experience plenty of weird things for the next three years as she tried to figure out what it meant to be an adult, how deeply she could love someone, and what it meant to be bad.