This is the story of several different marriages set in small-town America. There's a newly-married couple, an older, retired couple, a blended family with twins, and the main couple of the story, Brenda and Steve who are recent empty-nesters. Plus Patsy who owns a beauty salon, and where much of the conversation happens.

It's light, and the characters aren't particularly well developed, but the writing is good and the story interesting. I found some of the argument scenes almost painful in their realism, although the points about different love languages and lack of communication were made rather too obviously at times.

Written with advice from Gary Chapman in conjunction with his book about recurring marriage 'seasons'; I downloaded it free for my Kindle and am still undecided about whether to buy the other three in the series. Perhaps three and a half stars.