knew myself before him. Knew who I was, what I was worth. But when he walked into my life three and a half years ago, my fate was sealed. There would never be a me again without Emmett Brodie. There was Cara Hunter, the woman who was happy and capable of doing it all on her own. And then there was Cara Brodie, the woman who’d never need to do anything alone again, but with the man who reminded her day in and day out that she could.

