The crackling campfire illuminated her birth name, carefully inscribed in large, looping cursive.

She hadn’t expected this letter. Not after the way she’d left.

A dry sob clogged her throat—or was it simply smoke from the fire?—as she dropped the envelope, unopened, into the heart of the blaze.

Devon R. Widmer is a grumpy graduate student by day, a scribbling daydreamer by night, and a sleep deprived parent full time.