Leah, a middle-aged woman from a small town in Kansas, is six-months pregnant with her new husband after she divorced her local husband of 22 years, leaving her six children she had with him, and taking a seventh illegitimate toddler with her, going in her new and younger husband's luxury car to the US East Coast for the first time to his home area in New Haven, Connecticut to start a new life. The book is set in the 1950s and is full of unexpected twists and turns. Leah endures many difficulties but survives to build a life in New York City, which she could not have possibly foreseen. An unforgettable story based on a true experience.