So that's the ghost you been running from.

I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.

A sad smile crossed her face, and I knew right then what she was trying to tell me. Her eyes never left mine as she finally said the words that numbed my soul. I'm dying, Landon.

Single motherhood is a reality for a lot of women in my age group and the time difficulties in their lives are universal.

I’m stuck babysitting turtle eggs while a volleyball player slash grease monkey slash aquarium volunteer tries to hit on me.” I’m not hitting on you,” he protested. No?” Believe me, you’d know if I was hitting on you. You wouldn’t be able to stop yourself from succumbing to my charms.

But a risk-free life wasn't much of a life, really, and if she was going to change, she might as well start now.

When I was seventeen, my life changed forever . . .