Joyeux Anniversaire

**Time to blow out the candles, say goodbye to the past, and make a wish for

the future...**

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For April Wyatt, turning thirty is not what she had expected. She's single,

with no interest in changing that in the foreseeable future. Her popular,

successful restaurant in downtown New York - where she is chef and owner -

consumes every ounce of her passion, attention and energy. Ready or not,

though, April's life is about to change, in a tumultuous discovery on the

morning of her milestone birthday.

April's mother Valerie is a popular TV personality and the queen of gracious

living. Since her divorce long-ago, she has worked tirelessly to reach the

pinnacle of her career and to create a camera-ready life in her Fifth Avenue

penthouse. But she's having trouble equating her age with how she feels, and

all the hours with her personal trainer, the careful work of top hairdressers

and her natural good looks can't hide the fact that she is turning sixty, and

the whole world discovers it on her birthday.

It is also Jack Adams' birthday - the most charismatic sports personality on

TV, a man who has his pick of desirable younger women. But he fears his age

may finally be catching up with him when he wakes up on his fiftieth birthday

needing an emergency visit to the chiropractor...

A terrifying act of violence, an out-of-the-blue blessing, and two very

unlikely love affairs soon turn lives inside out and upside down. As these

three very different people celebrate their birthdays, they discover that life

itself is a celebration - and that its greatest gifts are always a surprise...