A Good Yarn

The first person you'll meet is Lydia Hoffman, who owns the shop.  In the year since it opened, A Good Yarn has thrived--and so ha Lydia.  A lot of that is due to Brad Goetz.  But when Brad's ex-=wife reappears, Lydia is suddenly afraid to trust her newfound happiness.

Elise Beaumont, a retired librarian, joins one of Lydia's popular knitting classes.  Since losing her life savings, Elise has been living with her daughter, Aurora--the only positive legacy from her brief marriage to professional gambler Marvin "Maverick" Beaumont.  Now she learns that her onetime husband plans to visit and that Aurora wants a relationship with her father, regardless of how Elise feels about him.

Bethanne Hamlin, like Elise, is facing the fallout from a divorce.  But her husband, Grant, left her for another woman--not a pack of cards--and she's still struggling to reshape her life.  She joins the knitting class as her children's urging; it's the first step in her effort to recover a sense of dignity and hope.  Then she starts a small business and meets a man with whom she has something surprising in common!

Courtney Pulanski is a depressed and overweight teenager.  She's staying with her grandmother, who's trying to help her...help that takes the form of dragging her to seniors' swim sessions--and to the knitting class as A Good Yarn.

Like so many women, these four find companionship and comfort in each other and in this age-old craft.  Who would've thought that knitting socks could change your life?