The first person you & -x2019; ll meet in A Good Yarn is Lydia Hoffman, who owns the shop. In the year since it opened, A Good Yarn has thrived & -x2013; and so has Lydia. A lot of that is due to Brad Goetz. But when Brad & -x2019; s ex-wife reappears, Lydia is suddenly afraid to trust her newfound happiness. Elise Beaumont, a retired librarian, joins one of Lydia & -x2019; s popular knitting classes. Since losing her life savings, Elise has been living with her daughter, Aurora & -x2013; the only positive legacy from her brief marriage to professional gambler Marvin "Maverick" Beaumont. Now she learns that her onetime husband plans to visit and that Aurora wants a relationship with her father, now matter how Elise feels about him. Bethanne Hamlin, like Elise, is facing the fallout from a divorce. But her husband, Grant, left her for another woman & -x2013; not a pack of cards & -x2013; and she & -x2019; s still struggling to reshape her life. She joins the knitting class at her children & -x2019; s urging: it & -x2019; s the first step in her effort to recover a sense of dignity and hope. Then she starts a small business and meets a man with whom she has something surprising in common!
