The Sunflower Girls Club is a story about first connections and how they are forever etched in our memories. It's about friendships that fill in the voids left by families. It's also about searching for truth, grieving losses, and letting go. Carly Beck seems to have it all. What she doesn't have is the slightest inkling how to live the rest of her life. At forty-eight, she can no longer ignore a troubled marriage, the death of a son ten years earlier, and an unresolved relationship with her mother. Not one, but two therapists become integral parts of her life: one who is treating her as a patient and takes her to her past, and the other who wants to be part of her future Carly's life becomes increasingly complicated after the death of a childhood friend draws her back to her Kansas hometown. To uncover the truth of Barbara's death, Carly attempts to entrap the most prominent surgeon in town. Dr. Martin Blaymore is gorgeous, charming -- and possibly a rapist. Returning to her hometown, Carly reconnects with the two other Sunflower Girls: Marla Hamlin, a lesbian professor at a women's college, who looks like Julia Roberts with the personality of Howard Stern; and Marydell Doss Bower, a family court judge in Savannah, Georgia, who survived a chaotic childhood to be successful in both work and love. There's also Carly's mother, Lanell Connor. Lanell lives in the town's only twenty-room Victorian mansion, which she keeps as cold and closed off as her relationship with her daughter. The Sunflower Girls Club is a book with a true voice -- the unraveling of a woman's life with both healing and humor.