Jamie's got it all: a great job as a news producer at one of the most influential channels in the States, an apartment in the Grid of Manhattan, three beautiful kids, a good looking successful attorney husband with the WASP pedigree traceable to the Mayflower, a housekeeper and a nanny. But look closer and you'll see not all is as it appears. Her husband is all too frequently working, and when he is at home he's ordering the staff around and throwing conniptions more befitting their two year old son Michael because his prized cufflinks don't fit properly in his two hundred dollar custom made shirts. He's not happy that he's not as rich as their friends who can go wheels up (private plane lingo) anytime they choose, and he's stuck flying first class with regular folks.

Jamie, in turn, has lost the love she used to feel for him and has been planning and putting off their divorce for three years now, thinking the love will work itself back into their marriage, if only he'd put in more effort. Namely, spending time with their children. When nine year old Dylan has a meltdown during a basketball game in front of everyone in school, sobbing under the basketball court, Jamie has had enough and takes her friends' advice to find a many for Dylan. She knows Dylan needs the fatherly figure in his life and since Phillip isn't around to be there for him in that capacity, she'll find someone to spend time with him and someone with whom he can develop a bond.

Enter Peter, as she's strolling through the park. She sees him working with several children in a human chess game and asks him to consent to an interview. Having developed a software system that will help children in public schools with their tutoring and waiting on his backers to come through, Peter decides the hours and salary benefit him too greatly to pass up, this way he can still work on the kinks in his software.

Dylan and Peter immediately bond, and Gracie and Michael take an immediate shine to him as well. It seems Jamie may be bonding with him also, much to Phillip's disapproval and dismay, who's already not terribly pleased with someone doing the things he should be doing with Dylan.

The book started out great, very fast paced and fun. I didn't anticipate a meaningful novel at all, and in that I wasn't to be disappointed. The initial storyline was cute, and flowed nicely. However, when the kids fell more to the wayside to make more room for the storyline of Jamie's crush and the potential to become more than a crush in the middle of the book, the story hit an ebb that it didn't really recover well from. I felt like the book was really stumbling through by then, and it didn't hold my attention quite as well as I would have hoped. The sex scenes were cheesy as all get out and while I felt like the book was a little bit too long, I definitely wasn't happy with the ending. It just kind of came out of nowhere and then tied up too quickly.