It's 1974, and America is restless, with the Vietnam War winding to a close, and feminists marching in the streets. Polly Wainwright respects the protesters' demands for equal pay, but now nearing middle age, won't risk her security. Her job, being a picture editor at a prestigious publisher, is enviable and too good to lose. Polly is comfortable with her life—her homey Chicago apartment, her war- correspondent boyfriend with the dangerous job that everyone admires, the steady paycheck. Still, she'd once dreamed of making documentary films.

When suddenly her life is thrown off-course, Polly slowly begins to view things differently and with growing dissatisfaction. But she can't shift gears to imagine a different future—until a mysterious letter arrives, changing how she views the one moment in her past when she might have achieved her dreams.

Lynn Sloan's second novel, MIDSTREAM, is the engrossing, powerful story of a woman awakening to the power of possibility.