As a professional home stager, Sandy Sullivan is an expert
at transforming cluttered rooms into attractive houses ready
for sale. If only reinventing her life were as easy as
choosing the perfect paint color. She's eager to put her
family's suburban Boston home on the market, to downsize,
and to simplify her own life. But she must first deal with
her foot-dragging husband and her grown son, who has moved
back home after college to inhabit the basement "bat cave."
After reading them the riot act, Sandy takes a job staging a
boutique hotel in Atlanta recently acquired by her best
friend's boyfriend. The good news is that she can spend time
with her recently married daughter, Shannon, in Atlanta. The
bad news is that Shannon finds herself heading to Boston for
job training, leaving Sandy and her southern son-in-law,
Chance, as reluctant roommates. If that's not complicated
enough, Sandy begins to suspect that her best friend's
boyfriend may be seeing another woman on the side.
Filled with characters who are fresh and original, yet
recognizable enough to live in your neighborhood plus plenty
of great tips and tricks for fixing up houses, and lives
this is a wise and witty story of letting go and moving on.