The Ramblers

Clio Marsh, bright and brimming with promise, lives her life around the edges. Her mother, a vibrant creature, proved to her daughter the pitfalls of flying too close to the sun, so Clio has created a careful, grounded existence, content to leave flight to the birds that she so carefully studies. While her birdwatching walks through Central Park have garnered a plum mention in New York magazine, Clio is only now taking wing, with her first tentative steps toward a relationship with a dazzling and determined older man … while also looking back to the secrets of her broken childhood.

Smith Anderson, the privileged daughter of a prominent New York City family, meticulously organizes the lives of others as her own is in shambles. Her broken engagement to a doctor has left her reeling and now she must take part in her younger sister’s larger-than-life society wedding. Smith longs to create order from chaos, to fix life and self, but too often finds herself cleaning up the messes of her late nights and anxious days.

Tate Pennington has made his mark-and his money-in the West Coast tech world, but his once-promising marriage to his college sweetheart has swiftly imploded. He has returned to New York City to lick his wounds and pursue the artistic dreams he left behind. A chance meeting with Smith snaps him from his misery and throws him into a whirlwind of unexpected passion.

Sorting through the confusion of their intersecting lives, this trio learns to let go of the past to make room for the future, and to embrace the uncertainty and promise that life-at any moment-can hold.