Meet four women who think they have nothing in common except
the oyster-shell road that runs between their ramshackle
beach cottages on a spit of land called Happiness Key.
When her husband is sent to prison, pampered Tracy Deloche
is left with twenty-five acres of Florida Gulf Coast sand,
five tumbledown beach houses and no idea how to start over.
An exile in a strange country, Janya Kapur has left her
wealthy, close-knit Indian family for an arranged marriage
to a man she barely knows. Plainspoken Wanda Gray is tired
of watching her marriage fail, so she takes a job guaranteed
to destroy it-if her husband cares enough to discover what
she's doing. Since her daughter's death, widow Alice Brooks
has grown forgetful and confused. Her son-in-law and
granddaughter have come to stay, but Alice isn't sure she's
grateful.
When the only other resident of Happiness Key dies alone in
his cottage, the four women warily join forces to find his
family. Together, they discover difficult truths about their
own lives and the men they love and uncover the treasure of
an unlikely friendship. Meet four women who think they have
nothing in common except the oyster-shell road that runs
between their ramshackle beach cottages on a spit of land
called Happiness Key.