The loss of their close friend draws four women together. And a summer spent sorting through personal effects offers the perfect challenge—and the perfect escape.Sable—her bestselling novels have made her a star, but the woman who has everything, in fact, has nothing but a past she is desperate to hideElly—the intellectual who has hidden herself within the walls of academia, afraid to admit she is tired of being aloneBarbara Ann—the talent behind twenty-six romance novels wakes up one day to discover she's lost control of her career, her sanity and her familyBeth—her popular mysteries have become the only way she can fight against the secret tyranny of an abusive husbandIn the house on Olive Street, away from their troubles, the four women discover something marvelous: themselves.
