One More Foxtrot: a tale of second chances

The year after octogenarian Betty Miles' exit from senior living as told in Hicks' Escape from Assisted Living, she's staying in Chicago. Her daughter Sharon D'Angelo is busy with Sharon's Desserts, her new shop in Elkhart, Indiana, funded by a legacy from her father. This equanimity between Betty and Sharon may be short-lived after a stranger makes an astonishing claim. Will mother and daughter work through this mystery together? Of course not. They have protected each other from upsetting truths their entire lives.

With her hands full--catering clients making moves on her husband Vince, her mother-in-law meddling in the desserts, and a visitor sleeping over--Sharon encourages her mother to stay away. Time isn't right for revelations of the goings-on in Elkhart that have propelled Sharon's Desserts from the red to the black.

Betty's happy in her city life with friend Eleanor. She's speed dating, making new friends, and reconnecting with an old one. She's also sleuthing family history, but her suspicions she keeps from Sharon because a good wife and mother should not tarnish a reputation.

When all the women meet by accident in Chicago, results of past transgressions come to light. They must ask what does it take to forgive, or move on, or rekindle romance? And do second chances offer just deserts? The Miles and D'Angelo experience with rewritten family history offers answers.