God is out there watching you, even when you're away from home and that if you put your trust in God, you'll be all right in the end.

That's another reason I keep putting marriage off. I know I want something like what you two share, and I'm not sure I've found it yet. I'm not sure I ever will. And with love like that...they say anything's possible, right?

I wouldn't go that far. But I know my way around the kitchen. I make dinner every night.

An ordinary beginning, something that would have been forgotten had it been anyone but her. But as he shook her hand and met those striking emerald eyes, he knew before he'd taken his next breath that she was the one he could spend the rest of his life looking for but never find again. She seemed that good, that perfect, while a summer wind blew through the trees.

Grown-ups always say that things are complicated.

I think that setting a novel in a small town taps into a sense of nostalgia among readers. People tend to believe life is different in small towns, and frankly, it is different.

I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh?