In this gripping new book from the author of Eliza Starts a Rumor and Nine Women, One Dress, a young woman has one month and a closet full of shoes to find the future she thought she'd lost. Esme Nash is excited to leave her tiny village and start her meticulously planned post-graduation life, which includes relocating to New York City, getting an apartment with her supportive college boyfriend, and landing a posh job at an art gallery. But when tragedy hits, she decides to stay at home to take care of her father instead of departing for Manhattan, abandoning her entire goal in the process. Seven trying years later, Esme is given the opportunity to access all of her long-buried goals and dreams?as well as an enormous collection of designer shoes?when a mystery man offers her a job dog-sitting in Greenwich Village. Esme is eager to take advantage of a second chance to enter the future she is certain was planned for her. Esme puts on selves she didn't know she had as she retraces her steps one pair of borrowed shoes at a time, finding new friends and getting back in touch with her ex-lover. However, the muggy August days and hot summer evenings pass by far too quickly, and Esme must make a choice on how much of the life she had pictured still applies as well as what?and who?lies in her future.