No one knows better than Elayna Leopold that life can change in an instant. On the surface she seems typical of other 30-something married women who spent their twenties chasing dreams in the city and end up chasing children in the suburbs. But spring marks her reawakening after two years of grieving the loss of her second child - and the reawakening of feelings she thought she had lost forever. As a handsome young artist helps Elayna rediscover her passion for life, she is in danger of risking everything she cares for by succumbing to the almost unbearable temptation of a younger man who is not only physically irresistible, but genuinely in love with her. Tender, provocative, startlingly real and impossible to put down, 'Sweet Ruin' is a story every woman should read at least once.