All in due time

It’s 2009, and West Hollywood boutique owner, Vivien Veen, is 44, and pregnant as a surrogate for her gay besties, when, after decades of failed romances in New York and L.A. and navigating a broken relationship with her family (or whatever she would call a family,) she finally meets the love of her life.

Vivien is a 20-something from Michigan who moves in with her gay best friend, Geoff, in New York City in the 1980s. She becomes accessories editor at a top fashion magazine, survives a harassing boss at a luxury retailer, traverses dating during the AIDS era, and loses a friend on the 97th floor of the North Tower on September 11.

The reverberation of a decision made in her early 20s travels with her as she yearns to find a family to call her own. She has just about given up – until she meets Jude, a soon-to-be divorcé. As her feelings around her surrogacy grow complicated, she struggles to come to terms with herself as a woman, and the idea of motherhood and family. And will her new relationship finally be viable?

All in Due Time is an 93,000-word women’s fiction novel that taps into the complex mother-daughter dynamic in Jennifer Weiner’s Mrs. Everything, redefining oneself as in Pamela Redmond’s Younger, the complicated construct of motherhood in Half Moon by Mary Beth Keane, and the role “place” has as it relates to metamorphosis as in City of Girls, by Elizabeth Gilbert.