Paris Armstrong, with two grown children, a lovely home and a happy marriage, can't imagine what her husband of twenty-four years wants when he says they need to talk But with four simple words, she is dumped in favour of a younger woman and Pete is gone After the tears and the excruciating attempts by well-meaning friends to 'fix her up' with men who pale in comparison to Pete, drastic measures are called for and Paris moves to San Francisco But being single in a world full of men who are too young, too old, too married or too good to be true has its own hardships until she learns to turn despair into freedom and loss into joy