My Husband's Daughter: Discovering Scarlett Evans

Forty-something Cassie Owens, the divorced wife of Keith, her cheating husband who just committed suicide, encounters 16 year old Scarlett Evans from near Albany waiting for her at her house in an upscale NYC suburb. This girl reveals in a letter from Keith that she is his child, something neither of them knew just days before.Cassie wants nothing to do with this Scarlett, and promptly deposits her back to her house in upstate New York.Soon, when Scarlett needs someone, anyone, to tell about being abused by a popular teacher, she turns to Cassie, who insists that she tell her mother. Having been pulled back in, and careful not to interfere with Scarlett's mother, Cassie falls deeper and deeper into this stranger's life until it becomes something...maternal.At the same time, Cassie is exploring options to get her own love life in order, in the treacherous waters of suburban Westchester. Only to find disappointment and betrayal.Will she find love? Or whatever it is she is looking for? Will Scarlett for all her faults become like a daughter to her as she sets off for college?And will Cassie Owens become Cassandra Geherty again and be able to sit contentedly on a bench in Riverside Park on Manhattan's Upper West Side, wonderfully content in a life she could not have imagined in those dark days when a stranger and the product of her husband's long-ago stood waiting for her on a fateful day?