First published 2008
Paris Armstrong thought she had everything figured out. She lives in a beautiful Connecticut home with her husband Peter and has raised two children to adulthood. Her marriage feels solid and her family complete. Then Peter asks for a divorce. He has found someone else, a woman barely thirty-one years old, and he already has plans for his new future. Paris faces the bitter reality that her life has shattered overnight. She must pick up the pieces of what remains and figure out how to live alone again. Paris decides to start fresh and moves across the country to San Francisco. There she discovers what it means to be single again after so many years of marriage. New men enter her life, each offering different possibilities. Paris creates a list of potential suitors as she navigates this unfamiliar world of dating. She learns to overcome the loneliness that threatened to consume her and finds ways to rebuild herself from the ground up.
Genres: fiction, romance, contemporary, divorce, contemporary-romance, family-drama
Vibes: emotional-atmospheric, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, second-chance
Setting: Connecticut, San Francisco
Period: 21st-century
432 pages · Paperback · Record