Natalie Strawn is an introspective, conscientious registered nurse. She has been deeply disappointed in attempts to find true love, but puts the welfare of her two children, both abandoned by their fathers, as priority over finding romantic love. Disagreements with her employer in an elder care facility over end-of-life care cause her career to take a downward spiral. After both her children leave home to live on their own, she is left with underemployment, her cat, and Facebook. She reconnects with some old friends from high school and finds that one of her most cherished, Zeke, has suffered a debilitating stroke. She visits him, and her emotional attachment to him arouses a hope for him to get better, but fate has a different outcome. This first novel has a contemporary social problem theme, and is both dramatic and humorous. I suggest that readers be eighteen and older because of mature situations and strong language. It is the first book of the Natalie Strawn series.