Beth Byers turns to women's fiction and indulges in her Jane Austen obsession with a modern setting. This series asks "what-if" you took the side characters from Jane Austen's era and gave them the freedom of a modern world. Would they have found their own midlife happily-ever-afters? In this short novel, Hetty Bates was a woman born to wealthy parents and a life of luxury. Then one disaster happened after another and two decades have passed. The death of her mother has finally occurred. Devastated and almost entirely alone, Hetty has reached her midlife and her first ability to make decisions just for herself. The question is…what is even left for her? What will she do with her freedom? How does one find happiness when you aren't even sure what you want?