In the twelve stories in this engrossing collection, Sara Schaff introduces us tocharacters at turning points in their lives; in doing so, she charts the way we takerisks-or create illusions-in the face of the unknown. A newly blended family'svacation is upended by one daughter's mythmaking and another's eagerness to believeher. A young couple on the verge of breaking up take one last trip together, only to havetheir reconciliation disrupted by uninvited...