Eva Marie Everson

Kimberly Tucker's life hasn't turned out the way she thought it would. While her ex is living it up, she struggles to understand what went wrong. When her two sons end up spending five weeks of summer vacation with their father, Kim plans a respite at the family vacation home on tiny Cedar Key. As she revisits the long-forgotten past, she discovers that treasures in life are often buried, and sometimes you do get a second chance at love.

Readers will laugh, cry, and fall in love with this stunning southern novel set in small-town Georgia in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Five single, fiercely independent women live together in a Chicago apartment in the early 1950s but rarely see one another. One Saturday afternoon, as they are serendipitously together downtown, they spy a wedding dress in a storefront window at the famous Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co. After trying it on--much to the dismay of the salesclerk and without a single boyfriend or date between the five of them--they decide to pool their money to purchase it....

The women of the Potluck Catering Club thought that winning The Great Party Showdown reality show would be the biggest adventure of their lives, but a shocking event leaves them stunned--especially when one of them is accused.