Love? Never Mind!

Five women. Seven stories. Plenty to talk about.

A promising new man. A date who won't leave. A good man who somehow isn't the right one.

Sophie, Maggie, Natalie, Maya, and Claire have plenty of experience with love-and still find themselves comparing notes over wine and dessert. They don't always agree. They aren't always right. But when one of them has news, the others pull up a chair.

In seven interconnected stories, Love? Never Mind! follows these women through the surprises of dating later in life, the ache of loss, and the uncomfortable moment when being wanted no longer feels like enough. There are awkward encounters, sharp observations, hard decisions, and friends willing to say what nobody else will.

With warmth and humor, Van B. Choat explores the difference between companionship and compromise, kindness and obligation, and loving someone and losing yourself. Some stories begin with hope. Others end with a boundary. Through it all, friendship offers room to laugh, grieve, and begin again.

For anyone who has mistaken endurance for love-or needed a friend to remind her she could stand on her own-there's a seat at this table.

Love may be unpredictable. The friendship is worth staying for.