Glamorous Notions

by Megan Chance

Grief and fear were a terrible combination and an unbearable weight.

It was odd, wasn’t it, how once you got everything you thought you wanted, fate—or whatever—threw a wrench into it, so that you were left reevaluating your life once again? Things were never settled, never clear, never what you thought they would be for more than a day at a time.

“Being a woman means you have a perspective no man has. It makes you powerful, Lena. It makes you ‘more than,’ not ‘less than.’”