I really enjoyed this book for real. you had this one woman(Susan Pettiford) who had to have a hysterectomy, which hurt her real bad, so she got up with this man(Lucas Hamilton), whom she seduced with a seven course meal,thinking perhaps that if she got with one man who could rock her world before she had this operation, she would be happy. but funnily, the man just couldln’t get her off his mind. Then you have another woman(Cassandra), who COULD have children, which her husband wanted badly and would divorce her if she didn’t stop putting it off, and she got real cold feet because she thought she’d be ugly and unappealing to him if she did get pregnant. Initially the two women became neighbors, but Cassandra didn’t think well of her, but as time moved on, they became good friends and Cassandra confided in Susan and back. Susan, feeling that she could invest in kids another way, started tutoring young kids at school, where she fell in love with a nice little girl named Rudy, and the only little boy that wouldn’t tease her, Nathan, both had problems. Rudy is a foster child, and Nathan, though he lived with his grandmother, wasn’t well, plus Nathan was in mourning over his mother and father’s deaths sadly. But as time moved on, Rudy and Nathan got attached to one another as well. It’s a real nice story and I’m just telling the half of it. There’s other situations included, which I won’t divulge, but please get the book. It won’t disappoint.