With only royal icing holding her together, Ruby still manages to pick herself up and move on, subsidizing her income with an extra job as a baking instructor, getting a Γ’β¬Εmy-husbandΓ’β¬β’s-goneΓ’β¬Β makeover, and even flirting with her gorgeous mortgage broker, Jacob Salt. For as long as she can remember, Ruby has done whatΓ’β¬β’s practical, eschewing far-fetched dreams and true love in favor of stability. But suddenly single again at the age of forty- four, sheΓ’β¬β’s beginning to discover that life is most delicious when you stop following a recipe and just live.