In Nancy Thayer's Everlasting, Catherine Eliot, age 17, decides not to attend college. Her socialite parents are furious and cut her off financially. She is forced to find a job for the first time in her life and becomes a clerk in an East Side floral shop called Blooms. There she stumbles onto her future career. She meets a young law student and life seems to be rosy and have happy endings.
Blooms becomes the hottest floral shop in Manhattan.
Unfortunately, the boyfriend is already married, more skeletons come out of the closet, and Grandma leaves her the estate. Cathy again rises to the top, but happily ever after is not for certain. Author Robin Pilcher truly has his mother's talent, and hopefully will write another book soon. His first novel, An Ocean Apart , features David, a Scottish whiskey magnate, who loses his wife to cancer and is left to raise three young children. Although absolutely devastated, David must go to Long Island to direct the U.S. operations of the family distillery.