Description
The protagonist, Lee Emery, is an empty nester who is content with her life. She has been married to her husband for 25 years and lives in the house where she grew up. She has a memoir of her grandmother, who she spent time with when she was 18, and she starts to have "what if" thoughts about her life. She decides to go back to Europe and revisit the first love she had there. While she is there, she starts to question her decision to not stay with her first love, Simon. She then sets off a chain of events that takes her back to Europe and to Simon.
Lee Emery is an empty nester, contentedly married to a man she has known forever and hunkering down in the house where she grew up. She believes she is happy occupying such a familiar emotional and physical space. But questions of the path not taken start to haunt her after she publishes a memoir of her deliciously eccentric grandmother with whom she traipsed through Europe at eighteen. It was then that Lee fell in love for the first time. Twenty-five years later, "what if" obsessions shake up her settled life. Should she have made a different choice-Simon-instead of the man now next to her? Struck once more by the lingering power of first love, she sets off a chain of events that catapults her back to Europe and to a second chance that she may or may not want to risk.