About This Book
Jenny Tate designs wedding dresses for a living, which is either poetic or cruel given that her own marriage ended in divorce — and somehow her ex-husband's new wife has become her closest friend. When the weight of that particular arrangement gets too heavy, Jenny retreats to her Hudson Valley hometown, hoping to rebuild her life in the shelter of her sister Rachel's seemingly perfect world. What she finds instead is that everyone around her is carrying secrets, and that the fresh start she came looking for might require dismantling everything she thought she understood about love, family, and herself.
Higgins writes with a sharp comic sensibility that never tips into farce — she earns the funny moments because she takes her characters' emotional lives seriously. The dual-sister structure gives the novel real depth, letting the story breathe across two very different perspectives on marriage and longing. Her dialogue crackles, her secondary characters feel lived-in rather than decorative, and she has a rare gift for making you laugh on one page and ache on the next. Readers who want romantic fiction with genuine psychological texture will find it here.