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 occupied the same tufted leather booth at Franc's restaurant for the last decade. Diane, a widow, is poised to enter the dating scene as she heeds warnings from Sarah the reluctant poster child for online dating gone wrong. Melissa attempts to find common ground with her teenage daughter while trying to find her own identity and Ali struggles to stay relevant in a world obsessed with youth and beauty. Rita longs to reconnect with her husband/business partner, while author and feminist extraordinaire Bette finds room in her life for a man. Kathy the group's rock is beginning to show signs of breaking. Fans of the witty romance , the honest humor of "Sex and the City" and the true-blue friendships of will dive headfirst into Dashiell's new series.