Includes recipes in back of book.

In the town of Avalon, Illinois some residents scrapbook their memories and make new ones, while others struggle to free themselves from the past. Isabel Kidd is fixing up her ramshackle house while sorting through the complications of her late husband's affair. Ava Catalina is mourning the love of her life and helping her young son grow up without his father. Yvonne Tate is smart, beautiful, and new to Avalon, but finds that despite a decade of living life on her own terms, the past has a way of catching up. And Frances Latham, mother of a boisterous brood of boys, eagerly anticipates the arrival of a little girl from China.