As a teenager in the 1950s attending summer camp in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Gemma Sommerset, from Lynchburg, Virginia, is given a glimpse of her future self—a woman capable of accomplishing just about anything. She dreams of traveling and writing. But with the expectations of marriage and motherhood, what are the odds that she'll get to live on her own terms? Isn't life, after all, a game of chance?

A literary fiction of a resilient woman coming into her own, Gemma Sommerset—the third novel from IPPY-award-winning novelist Jill McCroskey Coupe—shows it's never too late to follow your dreams.