Everyone She Loved: A Novel

A wise and triumphant novel about fate, family, love, four friends, and the devastating tragedy that defines them all.

Penelope Cameron, a loving mother and devoted wife, has talked her husband and four closest friends into signing an outlandish pact. If Penelope should die before her daughters are adults, her husband cannot remarry without the permission of Penelope’s sister and three college roommates. The contract gathers dust until the unthinkable happens. Now everyone she loved must find their way in a world without Penelope.

Penelope’s young daughters, her husband, and friends are slowly rebuilding new lives when the fragile serenity they have gained is suddenly threatened from within and the unbreakable bonds they share seem likely to dissolve after all. Can love be lost? A story about growing up and moving on, about the sacrifices people make for one another, the brevity and beauty of life, and the timeless legacy of love, Everyone She Loved is, above all, about the abiding strength of friendship.