Family Ties

Annie Ferguson was one of Manhattan's brig­htest young architects. Talented, beautiful, already a success, she had a world of choices – until a single phone call altered her course forever. Overnight, she became mother to her sister's three orphaned children, keeping a promise she'd never regret making. In the years to come, she would raise Liz, Ted, and Katie while putting together one of the city's top architectural firms. It wasn't the life she'd planned, but one that rewarded her tenfold for every sacrifice she'd had to make.

Now, at forty-two, as independent as ever, with a satisfying career and a fulfilling family life, Annie has reconciled herself to being single. With the kids young adults and confronting major challenges of their own, she is navigating a parent's difficult passage between lending them a hand and letting them go. The eldest, twenty-seven-year-old Lizzie, a rising star in the international fashion world, has landed a high-powered job at Vogue and fallen in love with the one man she's ever allowed close enough to hurt her. Ted, at twenty-four a serious and hardworking law student, is captivated by a woman much older, much more experienced, and who may be leading him much further than he wants to go. While the youngest, twenty-one-year-old Katie – impulsive, artistic, rebellious – is about to make a choice that will lead her to an encounter with a culture whose expectations of a woman's role are far different than anything she imagined.
But, perhaps, most surprising, is the accident that leads Annie to a man who will tempt her to reconsider her belief that it isn't too late to fall in love, after all.