Prom Night in Purgatory (Purgatory, #2)

by Amy Harmon

“Love isn’t pretty, Miss Margaret. I think that’s why so many people don’t make it. They don’t appreciate the hard times. They expect it to be all airbrushed and touched up like the pictures you see in them magazine ads.

“The truth is, Margaret, I just loved Mona more. I saw her strength and her patience, her gentle heart, and her love for me and her desire to shield me from pain.

All those things were more beautiful to me than her curves or her pretty hair. All those wonderful traits were on display like they’d never been before, and she took my breath away. I loved her more when she died than I did the day I married her. The woman I married was beautiful, but the woman I lost was stunning.

The hard times are often the best times, ‘cause they...

Life had taught her that consequences were ugly and painful, and seldom worth the pleasure they had been bartered for.

“That which has been is now; and that which is to be has already been,”