The Sea Keeper's Daughters (Carolina Heirlooms, #3)

by Lisa Wingate

If you could know—if you could always know—when the lasts in life are coming, you’d handle them differently. You’d savor. You’d stop. You’d let nothing else invade the moment.

Sometimes, even when you’ve spent years ignoring God, there are places where his fingerprint and his intentions seem absolute.

For too long, I’d harbored a five-year-old’s broken heart, one that was terrified, deep down, that no one could really be trusted. I was always ready to leave but never ready to really love. I told myself it was better that way, safer.