Susannah�s Garden: When Susannah Nelson turned eighteen, her parents sent her to school abroad. She said goodbye to her boyfriend, Jake - and never saw him again. Now, at fifty, she finds herself regretting the paths not taken. Especially the chance to be with Jake� In returning to her hometown of Colville, Washington, to her parents� house, her girlhood friends and the garden she�s always loved, she also returns to the past - and the choices she made back then. Back on Blossom Street: There�s a new shop on Seattle�s Blossom Street - a flower store called Susannah�s Garden, right next door to A Good Yarn. Susannah Nelson, the owner, has just hired a young widow named Colette Blake. A couple of months earlier, Colette had abruptly quit her previous job - after a brief affair with her boss. To her dismay, he�s suddenly begun placing weekly orders for flower arrangements! Twenty Wishes: Anne Marie Roche wants to find happiness again. At thirty-eight, her life�s not what she�d expected � she�s childless, a recent widow, alone. She owns a successful bookstore on Seattle�s Blossom Street, but despite her accomplishments, there�s a feeling of emptiness. On Valentine�s Day, Anne Marie and several other widows get together to celebrate�what? Hope, possibility, the future. They each begin a list of twenty wishes, things they always wanted to do but never did. Anne Marie begins to act on her wishes, and when she volunteers at a local school, an eight-year-old girl named Ellen enters her life.