Paris Armstrong never saw it coming. With two grown-up children and a lovely home in Connecticut, Paris was happy with her marriage, her family, her life. So when her husband of twenty-four years said they needed to talk, Paris couldn't imagine what he was about to say.
'I want a divorce', Peter tells her. Just like that, Peter and his thirty-one-year-old girlfriend had made plans for their future, leaving Paris to pick up the pieces of a shattered life. The task could not have been more painful, but finally, Paris realizes she is in a fight for her very survival.
Saying goodbye to the world she knows and loves, Paris heads west, to San Francisco, and discovers being single in a world of men who are too young, too old, too married or too good to be true. With her dating track record veering between disappointing and disastrous, Paris comes to the conclusion that romance is not in her future - until she discovers the secret of turning despair into freedom and loss into joy.
In a poignant, wickedly funny novel about getting dumped and getting over it, Danielle Steel explores what it means to start again, and find something better than you had before!