For My Daughters »

Barbara Delinsky started out her writing career creating novels for the category romance genre, partly under pseudonyms; but she has evolved into a name-brand all her own, praised by romance fans for the layered plotting and the complex characters on display in literally dozens of bestsellers.

Caroline, Annette, and Leah St. Clair have spent their lives trying to escape the legacy of their wealthy, social-climbing mother, Virginia. Then, on the eve of her seventieth birthday, Virginia gives something to her daughters after a lifetime of taking...

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When Virginia St. Clair was a young married woman, she fell in love with the gardener of her vacation house in Maine. At the end of the summer, she chose duty to her husband over love and emotionally estranged herself from everyone who entered her life. Her three daughters, born after that summer, suffered the most. Now, at 70, Virginia decides to correct her mistakes. She purchases her former vacation home in Maine and invites her daughters to join her there. Caroline leaves her law practice, Annette's family encourage her to make the trip, and Leah abandons the Washington social scene. When the three women arrive, they find out Virginia will be a few days late, and they must face their problems with each other and with their personal lives. The revelation of their emotionless mother's passionate past rocks the foundations of the sisters' beliefs about their family and enables them to heal the emotional scars of childhood and face the future with the men they love.