Chrissy Anderson

The Life List is the ultimate romance novel and most of the story is true. It takes place in trendy, suburban northern California during the late ‘90’s with several comical ‘80’s high school flashbacks.  Chrissy Anderson, a twenty-eight year old fashion executive, created a seven-point life list at the age of sixteen and she’s been steadily checking off the boxes and mocking the style and life choices of everyone around her ever since.  Her life begins to run amuck when she unexpectedly meets a much younger, Leo, who makes her question her “perfect life”. 

Chrissy’s lifelong friendships and her marriage are put to the test as she tries to sort out her feelings for Leo.  With the help of her brassy, no-nonsense therapist, Dr. Maria, Chrissy learns more about herself than she anticipates.  But, it isn’t until the untimely death of her best friend that Chrissy is catapulted into long overdue authenticity and scrambles to correct the mistakes of her past….trying to figure out if it’s Kurt, Leo or both that she has to get rid of to make everything right.

Women of all kinds- twenty-somethings, housewives and superwomen wanna-bes- will all be able to relate to the pressure of constructing the ideal life, only to fall short.  Not everyone will agree with Chrissy Anderson’s decisions, but all will pause as they follow along on her journey to ask, “What would I do if I were her?”