Anne Marie Roche wants to find happiness again. At thirty-eight, her
life's not what she'd expected--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...what? Hope, possibility, the future. They each begin a list
of twenty wishes, things they always wanted to do but never did.
Anne Marie's list starts with: Find one good thing about life. It
includes learning to knit, doing good for someone else, falling in love
again. She begins to act on her wishes, and 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 than Anne Marie intended.
It also becomes far more important than she ever imagined.
As Ellen helps Anne Marie complete her list of twenty wishes, they both
learn that wishes can come true--but not necessarily in the way you
expect.