Still Wanting: Four Stories of Sex, Desire, and Discovery for Women Over Sixty

They were told the best years were behind them. They were wrong.

Four women. Four awakenings. Four stories that prove desire doesn’t have an expiration date.

TASTE — Frances spent forty years letting her husband order for her — at restaurants, in bed, in life. Now he’s gone, and she’s on a culinary tour in Italy with no idea what she actually wants. When a younger food writer refuses to choose for her and instead asks what she’s in the mood for, Frances begins to discover that the woman Edward kept caged had appetites he never imagined.

THE GIFT — Gretchen Calloway has no idea she’s the most beautiful woman in every room she enters. Her husband Ralph knows — he’s always known. But when his body can no longer give her what she needs, he makes an extraordinary decision: he books a hotel room and sends her upstairs to a man who’s wanted her for fifteen years. What happens behind that door will shatter everything Gretchen believed about her own invisibility.

STILL WANTING — Kathleen traded Ohio for a Florida retirement community to save a marriage that didn’t survive the move. Newly divorced at sixty-four, she’s eating dinner standing up in the kitchen when hormone replacement therapy wakes her body from a years-long sleep — and a phone call to her former doubles partner forces her to confront a desire she’s been running from for nineteen years.

THE LAST THING SHE EXPECTED — Sharon is sixty, freshly divorced, and convinced her body has gone dark for good. A year of pleasant dates with pleasant men has produced nothing but the certainty that the electric part of her life is over. Then a thirty-eight-year-old coworker tells her he’s been fantasizing about her for eight months — and she discovers that sensible is the most overrated word in the English language.

Raw, honest, and unapologetically explicit, Still Wanting is for every woman who’s been told she’s past her prime and knows — or suspects — that’s a lie. These aren’t fairy tales. They’re stories about real bodies, real grief, real longing, and the breathtaking discovery that the fire doesn’t go out. It just waits for someone brave enough to strike the match.

Contains graphic sexual content. For mature readers.