By the time Cornelia succeeds in becoming pregnant, she and Piper have grown surprisingly close, each opening her heart a little to the other. She drops everything (but her children) to care for her best friend Elizabeth, who’s in the last stages of cancer. Meanwhile, Piper turns out to be a far more complicated woman than she seems on the surface. As much as Cornelia likes Lake, she senses Lake holding back at crucial moments and responds in kind. Dev suspects there might be more to the move, that Lake may be moving them closer to the mystery father he’s never met. Cornelia does begin a fledgling friendship with another newcomer, Lake, a waitress who has moved from California to enroll her genius 13-year-old son Dev in a special school after his previous school punished him for being too smart. Particularly unwelcoming is her tightly wound neighbor Piper, who is as sharp-tongued as she is judgmental about fashion, flowers and childrearing. Having moved out of New York City after the double whammy of a miscarriage and 9/11, Cornelia finds herself a shunned outsider among the community’s perfect blond matrons. In de los Santos’s second novel ( Love Walked In, 2006), Cornelia Brown returns the as heroine, now married to handsome oncologist Teo and trying to make a new home in the suburbs of Philadelphia.
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