Three 17-year-old girls, friends, become pregnant, and it becomes clear that this is some sort of pregnancy pact. One of the girls' mother is the principal of the school the girls attend, and is the central character in this novel. As the scandal erupts, her career is threatened, and her relationships with her daughter, her estranged family, and her daughter's father are forever changed...This was really good and thought-provoking. It's set in a small Maine town and the mothers of the daughters are all good friends and work creating wonderfully dyed yarns. There is a lot of knitting stuff in here too, which I particularly liked.