Mary Dell Templeton prefers the quiet charms of Too Much to the bright lights of Dallas any day. Shes relieved to be moving back to her hometownand bringing her cable TV show,Quintessential Quilting, with her. There are just a couple of wrinkles in her plan. Her son, Howard, who is her talented co-host and color consultant, and happens to have Down syndrome, wants to stay in Dallas and become more independent. Meanwhile, Mary Dells new boss hopes to attract a different demographicby bringing in a younger co-host. What Holly Whittaker knows about quilting wouldnt fill a thimble, but shes smart and ambitious. Her career hinges on outshining the formidable Mary Dell in order to earn her own show. Yet as Holly adapts to small-town living and begins a new romance, and Mary Dell considers rekindling an old one, the two find unlikely kinship. For as Mary Dell knows, the women of Too Much have a knack for untangling the knottiest problems when they work together. And sometimes the pattern for happiness is as simple and surprising as it is beautiful.