What do you want most in the world?
What Anne Marie Roche wants is to find happiness again. At thirty-eight,
she's childless, a recent widow, alone. She owns a successful bookstore
on Seattle's Blossom Street, but despite her accomplishments, there's a
feeling of emptiness.
On Valentine's Day, Anne Marie and several other widows get together to
celebrate...a sense of hope. They each begin a list of twenty
wishes--including things they'd always wanted to do but never did.
Some of the items on Anne Marie's list: learning to knit, falling in
love again, doing good for someone else. When she volunteers at a local
school, an eight-year-old girl named Ellen enters her life. It's a
relationship that becomes far more involving--and far more
important--than Anne Marie had ever imagined.
As Ellen helps Anne Marie complete her list, they both learn that wishes
can come true...but not necessarily in the way you expect!