"Amanda had been preparing for this moment for years, knowing it would come, wishing it wouldn't." p. 7

"The woman in the bed was a stranger now, just as she was a stranger to herself." p. 21

"'No matter how wrong it may be of me, I wish to God she'd never found those letters.'" p. 31

"And her only wish, as she stood over the graves of the two people she had loved all her life, was that she had never learned the truth." p. 36

"'If you could find it in your heart, I would very much like you to come and stay with me and mine a while.'" p. 48

"'You have a face, Shannon, that plants itself right in the front of a man's mind, and blooms there.'" p. 89

"If she was not Shannon Bodine by birth, and the hot young commercial artist by design, who...