Everything Before

Book Two in "Daughters of Eve" trilogy

Before she became the girl who ran away, she was the girl who stayed.

Adeline grew up in the second pew from the front as the preacher's daughter. She knew the rules of her home, the kind of love she was taught never to question, and the version of herself that had been decided for her before she was old enough to have a say.

Then there was Darryl. Patient, steady, certain. He wanted to leave this town and he wanted to take her with him. And Adeline wanted to go.

But wanting and doing are different things.

This book lives in the space between leaving and staying. Where you can see the door and cannot make your feet move toward it. Where you love someone enough to want to follow them and are too afraid of yourself to try. Where you stand at the edge of something for so long that by the time you're ready, it's already gone.

Because loving Darryl had been easy.
Choosing herself had not.

Small town roots. Inherited faith. First love that wasn't enough to save her.

This is everything that happened before she left her home.