"Gwynne creates a fictional world of ideas and passions . . . truly modern women and men struggling with a torrent of issues . . . delivered in accomplished prose that challenges us to think, feel, and imagine" -Robert Fleming, author of The Wisdom of the Elders After an absence of sixteen years, Susan Pettiford has come home to North Carolina, this time for good. Thanks to an inheritance, she can start her own interior design business. But it's not quite the life Susan hoped for. Single at thirty-four, she now faces a challenge that forces her to accept one of her dreams will never come true. Battling sadness, Susan decides to engage in a fling . . . Architect Lucas Hamilton couldn't be more surprised by Susan's dinner invitation-after all, she's the same woman who clearly rebuffed his advances at a recent party.
