Elizabeth Richards

Paige Austin has interesting work, a stable marriage, and a circle of women friends that help soothe the ache she would have filled with the child she can't concieve. Still, hers is a world that seems to rotate agreeably on its axis, until her husband's son Malachi, walks into it. Suddenly, Paige is watching herself spin in a brand new direction as she begins to lose sight of everything she'd thought she was about. Thrown out of boarding school Mal comes back home to Manhattan. Paige's friends proffer effusive counsel on stepmotherhood, but nothing prepares her for Mal himself. An impossibly tall, smart-talking young man, he makes her feel certifiably old, and yet edgily, wonderfully alive. In a few electric days, Mal and Paige seem to forge a connection neither of them can fathom. She is no longer childless, and Mal basks in a love unprecedented in his 17 years as they form a mother-son bond. Then, as abruptly as he arrived, he stalks away, into an existence Paige can only imagine. Left with an unravelling marriage and a wounded heart, she attempts her own kind of escape...until Mal's inevitable crisis crashes in.

In the rare moments when Leigh Adelman has time to consider her chaotic life, it takes her breath away: it's filled with three wonderful children and Simon, a devoted husband and father. Leigh's suburban New York life is fourteen years distant from her first love, an electric adventure that produced her first child -- and taught her that even all-consuming passion doesn't mean happily ever after. That intense, hopeful time had slowly receded to a remote corner of her heart...until the summer morning when Fowler popped back into her life. Unfinished business compels Leigh to see the brilliant, uncompromising Fowler. And as soon as she hears his voice she understands that she has always loved him. But this rendezvous turns out to be less about first love than it is about a last chance. For it is clear that Fowler is dying. Honest, moving and utterly authentic, "Every Day" is about testing the boundaries of love, and living with the often messy consequences. For anyone who has ever daydreamed about the past, or silently wondered "what if, " this unforgettable novel rings with one essential truth: the toughest choices yield the most unexpected rewards.