Gretchen's divorcing her unfaithful husband.
Dixie's dating someone else's husband.
Mary Sue is looking for a new husband.
Pamela is still married to her husband -- even though she lives in fear of him.

Best friends since childhood, they are

"The Girlfriends Club"

It's the eve of Mary Sue's birthday and Gretchen, Dixie, Pamela, and she are gathered at the lakeside cabin where The Girlfriends Club has sought refuge for years. But this time, the mood is less than celebratory as Mary Sue is due for a mastectomy the following day. The girls try to keep their spirits rolling, but when someone else arrives who thinks he knows what's best for Mary Sue, it's up to The Girlfriends Club to take matters into their own hands to protect their friend...even if that means having to keep a secret that might tear them apart.

This multi-generational story is set in small-town Texas spanning the years from World War II to the present. Two sisters, Martha Claire and Justine, move from girlhood to adulthood with different points of view and vastly different dreams. Martha Claire, the central character, is content with her small-town life. She marries Grayson Stewart, son of the town's most successful businessman, just before he is shipped overseas for duty. He is everything she ever wanted in a husband. But even more than a husband, Martha Claire wants a child. Justine has a very different plan for herself and joins the Women's Army Corps. She envisions a glamorous, adventure-filled life on her own as a photographer. So it is with no small irony that when the war ends, Martha Claire is to be found back home, feathering a still-empty nest, while Justine returns from Europe suffering both the physical and mental distress of finding herself pregnant and unwed. It is from this starting point that Judith Henry Wall's poignant and affecting novel follows these women as they set about living lives of compromise with both the joys and the tragedies that mark daily lives.

After their father's death, sisters Vanessa, Ellie, and Georgiana are stunned to learn a well-kept family secret. A yellowed letter tucked away in a family Bible reveals that the woman who gave birth to their late father had not died when he was born, as they had always believed. Their paternal grandmother gave up her son shortly after his birth, leaving this note with instructions to never reveal her name or background to him. The letter is signed, simply, Hattie.

The sisters are each at a turning point -- Vanessa is feeling stifled in a stale marriage and career; Ellie is perpetually single but desperately wants marriage and motherhood; and baby sister Georgiana is a successful model but longs to do something more serious with her life. Seizing upon the idea of finding their long-lost grandmother, the women set out on a trip to Montana, where they hope not only to find their father's birth mother but also to rekindle their bonds of sisterhood and possibly even find their true selves.

But they have no idea of the consequences of their quest. If the sisters find Hattie and live to tell their story, everything Hattie has worked and dreamed for will be destroyed. Will she allow the sisters to uncover the family secret and escape alive?

In this suspenseful work by the author of "A Good Man," a young woman decides to help a famous couple bear the child they couldn't have--and finds herself entangled in a deadly family secret.

From the acclaimed author of "The Girlfriends Club" a deeply affecting novel that tests the bonds of friendship against the long-buried pangs of first love

Rhonda, Gina Kay, and Holly were the best of friends in their small-town Texas high school until the day Gina Kay ran off and married Rhonda's boyfriend, Terry Robertson. Now, twenty-five years later, news of Terry's sudden death has reunited them, and brought to the surface old bonds and betrayals they thought they'd left behind.

The three old friends share a trip to New York City, where Gina Kay promises to finally reveal why and how she stole the love of Rhonda's life and ruined a friendship that was supposed to last forever. Over the course of that tumultuous trip, the women find themselves reconsidering their lives, the choices they made, the men they married, and all the paths not taken. As girls, they were stifled by their parents' expectations, small-town life, and the inevitability of biology. How many of their dreams did they actually pursue, and how many have they relinquished? If Rhonda had married Terry instead, would all of their lives have turned out differently?

"A Good Man" is a novel about good friends, first loves, shocking disloyalty, long-held secrets, and that ever-present question -- what if?