It was about grace, she decides, something that has been missing from her own life. ... She wants to be the kind of person who can bestow unearned kindness on another, replace bitterness with empathy, forgive only for the sake of forgiving.

However on her 30th birthday Rachel drinks too much and sleeps with Darcy's fiance Dexter. While doing revisions on Something Borrowed Emily Giffin found the inspiration for a sequel Something Blue. When Ben changes his mind Claudia is forced to reevaluate her reasons for not wanting children.