Monroe, Mary

Annette Goode Davis turns to her trusted friend Rhoda O'Toole for comfort and advice when her inability to regain the attentions of her husband lead her into an affair with handsome caterer Louis Baines, putting everything she cares about in jeopardy.

Twenty-eight-year-old Trudy Bell decides to make some changes in her life just months before she is to get married, but when her new job at a travel agency leads her into a life of credit card fraud, her actions threaten everything she has worked for and dreamed of.

Maureen takes her chance to explore the outside world and get away from her mother, the troubled Mama Ruby, who kidnapped Maureen from a friend as an infant and is rumored to have killed her former husband.

Annette Goode meets the father who left her and her mother when she was an infant, loses her groom when her uncle announces that she used to be a prostitute, and reconnects with the friend who murdered her rapist.

Annette Goode meets the father who left her and her mother when she was an infant, loses her groom when her uncle announces that she used to be a prostitute, and reconnects with the friend who murdered her rapist.

Annette Goode, abused by the boarder her mother has taken in, is forced out of her self-imposed solitude when the beautiful, worldly Rhoda decides to be her friend, but Annette finally comes to realize Rhoda's friendship is more burden than blessing.