Book Club: An Evening at Franc's

Frances Giuliani, owner of her family's Manhattan Italian restaurant, has a strict policy about never mixing business with pleasure. However, New Year's Eve, too much champagne and a knee weakening kiss from her handsome manager Derek is all it takes to make her question breaking the rule.

In the first in a series of novels that follow Frances' exploits as a restaurateur and single woman, Jeannette Dashiell crafts a poignant and humorous story about the friendships among seven women who have...