After leaving the small town where she grew up and raised her daughter, Betty had enjoyed twenty years of naughty adventures in Chicago with a man who was as offbeat, and as full of sensuous shenanigans, as she. Now, with her soul mate no longer living, she has decided to move back to the small Illinois town of Valley Ridge, and into her old house, now owned and occupied by her churchgoing, strait-laced, man-hating, middle-aged daughter, Katherine.

Each looked forward to this arrangement with a bit of hesitation. This hesitation was justified.