Gracie Anderson, a single college professor in her thirties, knows her life is severely lacking--no dates, no pets, and no real personal life to speak of. But now she's stuck: her best friend, Chloe, has signed her up for a support group that meets at a local community center in an attempt to hook her friend up with the man of her dreams.

Instead, Gracie meets five other women who are different from her and from one another as night and day. A librarian, a dominatrix, a fashion consultant, a housewife, and a blue-collar worker--and the only thing they have in common is they are all...