Nancy Thayer

When the will of a recently deceased ladies' man mandates a summer-long reunion for his daughters from different marriages at his posh Nantucket house, the three sisters are forced to confront long-festering resentments and misunderstandings as well as challenges in their private and professional lives, a situation that is complicated by a shocking revelation and the arrival of their mothers.

Faye, Marilyn, Alice, and Shirley--four middle-aged women who are all feeling over the hill and out of life--get together to form the Hot Flash Club, where they band together to help each other and get the most out of life.

Set in the Neew England academic world, this is a passionately told story of mid-life crisis, mother love, sexual desire, guilt and regret, courage and hope.; Daphne Miller, a 46-year-old former English instructor, is totally alone for the first time in her adult life. Her longtime lover has died and her teenaged daughter has ran off to live with the father she's never known. When Daphne meets Jack Hamilton, a young husband and first year English...

A girl accuses a stepbrother of raping her. True or false? The parents, Owen and Linda McFarland, are seven years into their second marriage, with children from the first, and on the answer depends their future as man and wife.