The State We're In

Contemporary fiction. Meet Jo. She's an incurable romantic, ever hopeful that life will bring her the things she wants most: a husband, children a family. She wants what her parents have had the happiest marriage ever. Meet Dean. He's a self-made, self sufficient man, who doesn't believe in happy-ever-afters. Why would he when his father walked out on his mother and sister and left them to fend for themselves? A chance phone call, a reckless decision and a twist of fate bring these two utterly different people together neither of them will ever be the same again.