The Stork Club — Iris Rainer Dart

Movie mogul Rick has had every perk Hollywood can offer, but still feels something's missing. As his fiftieth birthday approaches, he decides he wants a family even though he can't commit to a woman--and is about to give everything he's got to adopt a baby. The writing team of Ruthie and Sheldon has produced both great comedy and a great kid. But Sheldon is gay and the specter of HIV is complicating their already unconventional lives. Lainie and Mitch gave birth to their chic boutique, Panache, with ease, yet they can't have a baby without a surrogate. Can Lainie risk losing her husband to "the other woman" - the one bearing his child?

Now, these couples have gathered at "The Stork Club," a support group for unique parents, in a novel about a 1990's way of having a family...and a timeless way of losing one's heart.