Twenty Wishes: A Blossom Street Book

Anne Marie Roche wants to find happiness again. At thirty-eight, her lifes not what shed expectedshes childless, a recent widow, alone. She owns a successful bookstore on Seattles Blossom Street, but despite her accomplishments, theres a feeling of emptiness.On Valentines Day, Anne Marie and several other widows get together to celebratewhat? Hope, possibility, the future. They each begin a list of twenty wishes, things they always wanted to do but never did.Anne Maries list starts with Find one good thing about life. It includes learning to knit, doing good for someone else, falling in love again. She begins to act on her wishes, and when she volunteers at a local school, an eight-year-old girl named Ellen enters her life. Its a relationship that becomes far more involving than Anne Marie intended.