How do you change your luck? A young woman chooses to look for happiness in this marvelously entertaining and poignant novel from the New York Times bestselling author of How to Walk Away and Things You Save in a Fire.
 
“A hilarious and touching take on what it means to be a grown-up.”—Julie Buxbaum, author of Admission and Tell Me Three...

After gaining baby weight, and losing her husband, Abigail's devotion to a weight-loss book causes her to discover her secret love of the culinary tradition.

Beth Cardall faces the need to reveal a secret she has been keeping for eighteen years since Christmas Day of 1989, when she encountered a mysterious, handsome stranger named Matthew who changed the course of her life.

Struggling to make a home for herself and her five-month old son Samuel, Grace Moore accepts a position as a personal assistant to Roman Velasco, a temperamental successful artist.

It's 1965 in a tight-knit working-class neighborhood in Queens, New York, and Ruth Malone — a single mother who works long hours as a cocktail waitress — wakes to discover her two small children, Frankie Jr. and Cindy, have gone missing. Later that day, Cindy's body is found in a derelict lot a half mile from her home, strangled. Ten days later, Frankie Jr.'s decomposing body is found. Immediately, all fingers point to Ruth.
As police investigate...

An artist turned stay-at-home mom becomes convinced that she is turning into a dog and, as her symptoms intensify, struggles to keep her alter-canine-identity a secret, until she meets a group of mothers who may also be more than what they seem.

Moving to Montana to stay with her terminally ill grandfather, Molly begins to wonder about ranch worker Sam Dakota, whom the sheriff does not trust but whom her grandfather wishes her to marry.

When her life explodes in a cloud of betrayal and disillusion, Soledad Barnes, while working to support her daughters, rediscovers herself, but when a man she shouldn't want but can't resist enters the picture, she wonders if she can be brave enough to make room for what could be.

After Dylan Childress, who is struggling with a difficult decision, comes to the aid of Katie Malone, who gets stranded on her way to visit Virgin River with her two young sons, they yield to their mutual attraction.