Ladies Loving Life

Kate has spent her whole life good at change - new job, new state, new self, whatever the moment called for. What she didn't expect, at this stage of life in The Villages, Florida, was to fall in love with a wine bottle, a coffee table, and a microphone.

It starts as one night's idea among friends: a podcast where the women of Thirsty Thursday finally say the things they've spent decades not saying - about sex, aging, grief, reinvention, and the messy, hilarious business of still becoming someone new after sixty. Wine and Women takes off faster than any of them expected, and one story at a time, Kate's closest friends step into the microphone and hand over the truth.

What none of them know is that their husbands have a secret of their own - a monthly poker night that's quietly evolving into something a lot less about cards, building toward a single explosive night neither group saw coming.

Warm, wickedly funny, and unapologetically explicit, Ladies Loving Life is a novel about what it means to stop hiding - from your husband, your friends, your history, and yourself - at exactly the age everyone assumes you've stopped changing. With a cast of women who refuse to be anyone's idea of "settled," this is book club fiction with its wine glass raised and its inhibitions left at the door.