Chapters (35)
- Title Page
- Copyright Notice
- Epigraph
- One
- Two
- Three
- Four
- Five
- Six
- Seven
- Eight
- Nine
- Ten
- Eleven
- Twelve
- Thirteen
- Fourteen
- Fifteen
- Sixteen
- Seventeen
- Eighteen
- Nineteen
- Twenty
- Twenty-one
- Twenty-two
- Twenty-three
- Twenty-four
- Twenty-five
- Twenty-six
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- A Preview of “And Then I Found You”
- prologue
- one
- ALSO BY PATTI CALLAHAN HENRY
- Copyright Page
“Who wants dessert?” Rowan asked as they stood facing one another.
Kate felt the panic rising—a grip on her throat, a beehive in her gut. It always happened this way. Just when she thought she could love, just when she thought a man would be able to enter her life, she panicked. She wanted, more than she wanted anything, to make this dread end.
She smiled past the anxiety and then lied. “I’m exhausted. I think I just need to go home and hit the sack.”
Rowan looked at her and squinted, knowing her voice was off-kilter. “Okay,” he said, drawing out the end part of the word into a long “eh” noise.
Good-byes were said and hugs were given and when only Kate and Rowan remained in his den, he asked the one question she couldn’t answer. “What’s up with you? What’s wrong?”
Home in her loft, leaning against her bed’s padded headboard, Kate closed her eyes and took in a long, deep breath. What is wrong with you? Those weren’t Rowan’s exact words, but close enough to taunt her.
The sight of that ring should have sent any girl into spasms of happiness.
What is wrong with you?
The answer to that damn question seemed as far away as the moon: inaccessible, remote, and frozen.
She slumped down under her covers, bringing the white duvet to her chin. Maybe the unassailable answer to what was wrong was to really and finally once and for all talk to Jack.
No.
See Jack.
No.
When all the mistakes had been made and all the running had been finished, a girl does not go back to the boy to undo what can never, ever be undone.
ALSO BY PATTI CALLAHAN HENRY
ALSO BY PATTI CALLAHAN HENRY
The Perfect Love Song: A Holiday Story
Driftwood Summer
The Art of Keeping Secrets
Between the Tides
When Light Breaks
Where the River Runs
Losing the Moon
Copyright Page
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
“With That Moon Language” from the Penguin anthology Love Poems from God.
Copyright © 2002 by Daniel Ladinsky. Used with his permission.
Artwork on page 98 by Daniel H. Wallace, author of Big Fish
eISBN 9781429940665
First eBook Edition : July 2011
First Edition: August 2011