Anne Marie Roche wants to find happiness again. At 38 her
life s not what she d expected--she s childless, a recent
widow, alone. She owns a successful bookstore on Seattle s
Blossom Street, but despite her accomplishments, there s a
feeling of emptiness.
On Valentine s Day, Anne Marie and several other widows get
together to celebrate...what? Hope, possibility, the
future. They each begin a list of twenty wishes, things
they always wanted to do but never did.
Anne Marie s list starts with: Find one good thing about
life. It includes learning to knit, doing good for someone
else, falling in love again. She begins to act on her
wishes and when she volunteers at a local school, an eight-
year-old girl named Ellen enters her life. It s a
relationship that becomes far more involving than Anne
Marie intended. It also becomes far more important than she
ever imagined.
As Ellen helps Anne Marie complete her list of twenty
wishes, they both learn that wishes can come true--but not
necessarily in the way you expect.