In Wendy Walker's insightful debut, the picture-perfect lives of four wives and mothers begin to unravel against the backdrop of outrageous suburban wealth.On the outside, Love Welsh, Marie Passeti, Gayle Beck and Janie Kirk seem to have it all - marriages to handsome, successful men, beautiful children and the kind of affluence most people dream of. But in the gilded suburb of Hunting Ridge, appearances mask a deeper truth. Behind the facade of contentment they struggle to maintain, each of the women must confront her own crisis. From infidelity and abuse to malaise and the haunting ghosts of a troubled past, their not-so-perfect lives are slowly exposed. And as springtime draws to a close, the women come face to face with the most difficult challenge of their lives - to reconcile their innermost desires with the lives that each of them had chosen.