We are all a work in progress, this book included.

A title in progress just as much as the manuscript itself.

Four middle-aged mom-friends find themselves barely juggling daily demands while under the thumb of the unrealistic expectations we carry as partners, daughters, and the next generation, leading one of them to engage in a kidnapping and the rest to blindly follow, resulting in a reassessment of the paths they have been living. This is a story for the exhausted mom who hopes to reclaim herself and her agency without breaking under the weight and pull of the life she has spent years building. Written by a once-practicing child psychologist and forever mother who has been on both sides of the honest and raw conversations of motherhood and it’s ripening into Second Adulthood.