Three women navigate their late twenties together in a bittersweet novel about female friendship, identity, and growing up—from the hope and promise of college to the realities that lie beyond.

Lily, Ana, and Margot have been best friends ever since Hawthorne Res Life assigned them as roommates during their first year of college.

Ten years later and Lily is planning her wedding to the endlessly supportive and entirely symmetrical Jack. Ana is a fourth-grade teacher at the prestigious Horizon Academy, alma mater of her long-term boyfriend, who’s finally asked her to move in. Margot is about to land a life-changing promotion at ad agency McQueen O’Doul’s.

It all looks good from here.

But when the three friends converge on Maine for the wedding, the real challenges they’ve been able to keep from each other begin to surface. It’s finally time to open up about their secrets, the very private struggles they’ve hidden for too long, and the risks they’ve taken to protect themselves, and those they love, from the truth.

For Ana, Lily, and Margot, whatever unsettled course their lives take next, one thing is certain: Acceptance, unconditional love, and friendship are forever.

Phoebe Thompson writes about female friendship, mothers and daughters, and money. She studied English literature at Bowdoin College, got her MFA in fiction at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and runs a marketing agency in Brooklyn, New York. For more information, visit www.phoebethompsonwrites.com.