Bestselling author Kris Radish takes the emotional measure of mothers, daughters, sisters, and friends in her wise and wonderful new novel of a woman unsure if she s on the verge of a breakdown or a breakthrough....After all these years is there any way you would see me again? When Emma Lauryn Gilford heard the voice on her answering machine, she thought, How dare he? She s put a lot of distance between herself and Samuel, filling her life with work and family, lavishing her attention on her lovely nieces and a garden that s the pride of Higgins, South Carolina. So why does his voice still have the power to make her heart skip? Why can t she stop thinking about this man she d forgotten so long ago?Emma has always been the dependable daughter, the mediator of the controlled chaos always surrounding her high-strung sisters and her widowed mother, Higgins s own senior citizen seductress.
