The Lost Heiress: A Novel

by Elizabeth Klehfoth

“You know that saying that you can never go home again?” she asked. “I never understood it until my cousin died. Home isn’t a physical place. It’s a point in time when you felt loved and protected and safe. It’s a person who made you feel that way. And when that’s gone, it changes everything, you know?”

Florence thought for a moment. “I’ve always believed that romantic love has two parts,” Florence said. “There’s physical attraction. That can happen at first sight, obviously. But the second part, a real affection, can only be developed over time, after you’ve come to really know someone. I think that anyone who says they fell in love at first sight merely had their initial attraction substantiated later on by a deepening regard for the person as they got to know them.”