would marry, settle down, and make a family that included birthday and the punch in the gut Christmas card with the Molly Gifford packed the last of her suitcases and boxes She was still the kid shuffled from boarding school to Just a week ago, her mother had broken her engagement, twenty eight, Molly should be way past caring. She wasn’t. closing, she thought. Her life here in Hawken’s Cove was She should have known better. Shouldn’t have gotten her always just out of reach. Prologue