The Anniversary Effect

Heartache blooms in Alice with the passing of each milestone without her husband. Her looming birthday is no different.

Alice is almost fifty years old. And alone. Peter has been gone for ten months. It may not be getting any easier to live without him, but it is becoming normal. So normal, that her friends urge her to look for happiness in a partner. A prospect Alice can't imagine. She finally agrees to give it a shot on one condition—her friend Marci Jewell does the same.

Marci just learned...