Second Chances

Twenty years ago, Anna Lindqvist stood at the altar in a borrowed veil while her fiancé disappeared without a word, leaving only a four-word note. Now she runs a small bookshop on the shore of Lake Superior. One snowy afternoon, he walked in with a twelve-year-old girl, and the girl recognized Anna before he did.

Eighteen months after her husband died, Dana Whitaker’s old pickup broke down on a Texas highway. The mechanic who towed it fixed it for free, then kept refusing her money for every repair after. He wouldn’t say why. The answer was waiting in the one thing of Paul’s she hadn’t been able to open.