Myra Lipinsky, a fifty-one-year-old visiting nurse who never married and has resigned herself to a solitary life with her dog, crosses paths with the man she admired from afar in high school when he becomes one of her patients--one with a terminal illness.
Latina novelist Alma Huebner begs off joining her husband on a humanitarian mission to the Dominican Republic to work on her next book, and finds herself becoming obsessed with the life of her subject--a woman who hand-picked a group of orphan boys to serve as live carriers of the small pox virus in order to provide Spaniard Francisco Xavier Balmis a ready supply of vaccine with which to inoculate the populations of Spain's American colonies in 1803.
In a novel that spans time and space, a middle-aged woman on vacation in Florida is linked to an elusive Sixties-era fugitive, as well as dozens of other characters whose lives seem mysteriously intertwined.
Beck Davitch, a fifty-three-year-old party planner, suddenly questions her identity and attempts to regain the youthful wisdom she had before she was swept into marriage by a charismatic older divorcee--and father of three--thirty years ago.
Follows the childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood of Vivi, Teensy, Caro, and Necie from the time they first meet in the 1930s through their many experiences and years of friendship.
Wendy Darling Braverman, the great-granddaughter of the original Wendy from the Peter Pan legend, has trouble--as do all the women in her family--dealing with reality after her trip to Neverland as a thirteen-year-old, and tries to prepare her daughter Berry for the arrival of Peter who is sure to break her heart.
