The Fadeaway by Stephanie Taylor

Life giveth, and life taketh away. For a woman of a certain age, loss is not unexpected, but when Ruby Hudson loses someone she loves dearly, it changes everything…

At fifty, Ruby knows that life is a series of ups and downs, wins and losses, but she’s still wholly unprepared to lose someone she loves so much. In the process of working through her grief, she discovers that there was so much she didn’t know about this person she loved–so many contradictions and hidden stories. Has she turned a blind eye to everything but being First Lady, raising kids, and, now, to being a widow? Did she truly miss all of the wild and wonderful things about this person she’ll spend the rest of her life missing?
Can anyone truly know the people they love, and appreciate them while they’re still here? Or are we simply left wondering how we missed so many details about another person while we’re tangled up in our own lives?