Evvie, Maggie, and Topher have known each other since university. Their friendship was something they swore would last forever. Now years have passed, the friends have drifted apart, and none of them ever found the lives they wanted - the lives they dreamed of when they were young and everything seemed possible. Evvie starved herself to become a supermodel but derailed her career by sleeping with a married man. Maggie married Ben, the boy she fell...

"Grace and Ted Chapman: literary power couple. Ted is considered 'the thinking man's John Grisham' and Grace, his wife of twenty years, is beautiful, stylish, carefree. All of this is on the surface; beneath, what no one sees, is Ted's rages. His mood swings. And the precarious house of cards that their lifestyle is built upon. When Ted's longtime assistant and mainstay leaves, the house of cards begins to crumble and Grace, with dark secrets in her...

As dark truths from the past reveal themselves, two middle-aged women must learn to forgive -- for the sake of their children and themselves.

"Gabby and Elliott have been happily married for eighteen years. They have two teenaged daughters; they have built a life together. So why does forty-three-year-old Gabby feel like she has only three more minutes left of youth? Why do her friends so desperately try to hang on to their attractiveness? And why does she ever even look at the handsome guy--ten years younger--at the other end of the bar one night? Gabby is the last person to have an affair--a...

In Jane Green's story of redemption, Kit, a single mother of two, works as an assistant for Robert McClore, an elderly and reclusive famous author, in Highfield, Connecticut, a small beach town. When Kit uncovers a juicy, long-hidden secret of her employer's, she debates between revealing the secret to the town's many rich, gossipy women or keeping it to herself. All the while, she must also deal with her estranged sister and distant mother.