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Dedication

Once in a while a special person enters your life whom you want to acknowledge. For me, John Stephens is that special person. Thank you, John, for all you do for me.

F. M.

Prologue

Samantha Rainford, just hours away from her thirtieth birthday and forty-eight hours away from being served with divorce papers, looked around the tiny apartment she’d lived in for the last five years. It was tiny but cozy and comfortable. For the most part, all she did was sleep here. Every piece of furniture had been chosen with care. Every knickknack meaningful. Even the plants had been chosen with regard to light and temperature. Translated it meant she was a home-and-hearth kind of gal. So much so that her husband of three weeks had just served divorce papers on her.

Sometimes life was a bitch.

Sam took another look around the tiny apartment. She’d sold off the furniture, the knickknacks, and even her luscious plants to the new tenant who was moving in tomorrow, at which point she would move into the condo she’d been in the process of buying when she’d been caught up in a whirlwind romance with Douglas Cosmo Rainford, III.