Lucy Tuttle is a workaholic financial planner whose biggest worry is how to line up the sticky notes on her desk just so, until her only relative dies a car accident halfway across the world. Suddenly Lucy (apartment-dwelling, doesn’t-own-a-hammer Lucy) inherits a handyman’s delight on the other side of town. Her boyfriend, a laid back environmentalist with an affinity for organic lentils and sock thievery, convinces Lucy to move into her aunt’s broken down house. The two of them embark on a quest to settle down, renovate her aunt’s home, and start a family, but as it turns out, living happily ever after in a house that’s about to be condemned isn’t so easy after all.

“The Sock Wars” is a novel of love, loss, and what gets left behind.