Riverside Park

July 1, 2009
The residents on now-fashionable Riverside Drive range from a high-powered network executive to a college dropout trying to find her way in the world, and they intersect through friendship and hardship as each has a story to share and problems to solve. Cassy Cochrans marriage is a sham as her wealthy husband conducts multiple affairs, while her one chance at true happiness may jeopardize her network and good name. Her friends Amanda and Howard Stewarts marriage is suffering as they try to maintain two separate households. The Wyatts are dealing with a pregnant 19-year-old daughter, while former housekeeper Rosanne DiSantos is a single mother raising a teenage son and working as an LPN, a job she hates. And Celia Cavanaugh is drifting as she bartends with Rosannes son. Van Wormer has returned to her roots in portraying New Yorks West Side, exposing the secrets of five intriguing, troubled families in a titillating and very entertaining novel.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2009, American Library Association.)