A Gen X mid-life crisis story about regret and renewal.

“It’s my birthday—New Year’s Day—a perpetual promise of fresh starts and new beginnings…But, at the beginning of 2014, I did not feel optimistic…Every year as a kid, I couldn’t wait for Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, just like Monica and Ross on FRIENDS, imagining that my birthday would someday always be one big party…[but] parenthood has a way of draining the fun out of it; everything’s always so PG-rated.”

Shannon had it all. A beautiful home. Two sons. A husband, John, who had successfully traded his twenty-year military career for civilian life. So why did she feel so lost?

After leaving work to raise her children, Shannon found herself restless, disconnected from her marriage, and wondering what happened to the woman she used to be.

Then her best friend, Lisa, helped Shannon land a new job—and everything changed.

What began as a chance to rediscover herself quickly became a turning point in Shannon’s marriage.

And Shannon was about to discover that finding yourself can sometimes mean risking everything you thought you knew about love, family, and home.