To think, after all this time, after all the searching and all the waiting, after all the regret and the time she'd spent away, she came back to find that happiness was right where she's left it. On a football field in Mullaby, North Carolina. Waiting for her.

For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.

The words were strung in the air like garland. She could almost see them.

Willa?" "Yes" "It's morning and I still love you.

Safe is just another word for scared.

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

But one thing she [Rachel] did believe in was love. She believed that you could smell it, that you could taste it, that it could change the entire course of your life.