Comprised almost exclusively of conversations between women, a collection of stories explores themes ranging from sex and violence to shame and self-sabotage as they impact two decades of life for a recklessly thrill-seeking unnamed narrator.

Returning to her home in the South, Leelee Satterfield opens another restaurant but finds returning to her former life challenged by memories of the Vermont man who stole her heart and the daiquiri-laced advice of her three best friends.

After their best friend Mina loses her battle with cancer, Samantha, Isabel and Kendra, best friends since they were seven years old, find themselves lost, and using Mina's journal as a guide, they embark on a journey that strengthens their bonds of friendship and teaches them to follow their hearts.

Newly-engaged graduate student Chloe must deal with her true feelings about her best friend after she becomes engaged to someone else while her own mother is tempted by an employee and her Grandma June meddles in everyone's business.

Returning to a small island off the coast of Florida to help her mother settle the family estate, Marlow Madsen finds her idyllic getaway shattered when her father's will reveals a shocking secret that tarnishes his impeccable reputation and everything she thought she knew about her family.

After her fiancé is killed in the Iraq war, LilyAnn loses her zest for life and lets herself go to seed, but when a new guy arrives in town, she decides it's time for a makeover.

Four very different women leading very different lives, with the help of books, laughter and friendship, find the courage to seek their own versions of happily-ever-after.

Striking up a deep friendship with reclusive poet Emily Dickinson, plucky Irish maid Ada Concannon struggles with Emily's obsessive life, which is called into question when the poet endeavors to protect Ada's reputation.

In 1965, small-town aspiring photographer Alice Weiss finds herself working as a secretary for the new editor-in-chief at Cosmopolitan, and must navigate her way through office politics, city life, and unscrupulous men while trying to hold on to her dreams.