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Macy Reardon is a 38 year-old housewife who seemingly has everything she has always wanted: a handsome and successful husband, two beautiful children - a boy and a girl, and a lovely home in a wealthy suburb of Los Angeles that she is continually updating and decorating. But though Macy believes she has it all, she soon discovers her marriage isn't what she thought it was, leading her to question the choices she has made in life - from being the "good girl" her family always expected, to giving up her short-lived career in the music industry to stay home with her children.
Macy's growing discontent drives her to accept her best friend Juliette's invitation to meet a charismatic and mysterious woman named Melia. Melia leads a group of women she calls "the daredevils" on regular outings where she proposes a series of dares to help them inject adventure and excitement back into their lives. Macy's journey as a "daredevil" begins with the simple and relatively harmless dare of acquiring a tattoo but quicky progresses to a series of more intense situations that force her to question who she really is and what she really wants. Her encounter with an attractive young musician named Jem leads her to question not only her marriage but all of the things she may have missed in her younger years.
Macy's well-established identity as a housewife and mother, and her new role as a "daredevil" begin to intersect and conflict until she is forced to make serious choices - choices that could lead to the unraveling of her once idyllic life.
Daredevil has been called "Fight Club for soccer moms" and compared to the series Desperate Housewives. Like The Diary of Bridget Jones and I Don't Know How She Does It, Daredevil tells the story of a woman wrestling with the issues of work, family, and home, and how they affect her identity and status in society. Unlike all of these books, however, Daredevil tells the unique story of a woman who is willing to risk the things she values most and dive off the edge just to feel alive again.
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