Jen Conrad always did things exactly as expected. Raised by an imperious mother and a superior court father, she found comfort in her marriage to a brilliant lawyer and became an admired woman for her hostessing and fundraising skills. When she is widowed, she has to shed her skin and learn to fight for herself, find financial resources to start a new venture, support her dying mother, and overcome a devastating event that occurred forty years ago. She has choices to make, choices that a year ago would have been unthinkable.