2. Given her deep-seated anger at her sister, why do you think Bryn makes such a serious effort to find Del?
3. How does Bryn change over the course of the story? How does her attitude toward Josh change? Toward Del? Toward Landon?
4. In many ways, Josh takes on the role of parent in his relationship with his mother. Where does the line belong between giving children enough responsibility and giving them too much?
5. Josh initially distrusts Bryn and hesitates to give her full information about his mother. How do his feelings toward Bryn change over time and why?
6. When Bryn is forced to face her whitewater fears, does she act as you would have predicted? How does this event impact her thinking?
7. Bryn has crafted a homesteading life that’s a mix of animals, gardening, and remote computer work. How would you design your own “fantasy” life?
8. More than 46,000 people died in 2018 due to opioid overdoses. How has your community or people you know been impacted by the opioid crisis?
9. If you could change something about this story, what would you change and why?
10. If you were to write the next chapters of this book, what would happen? What do you foresee in Bryn and Josh’s futures?
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AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Rebecca Hodge is an author of fiction, a veterinarian, and a clinical research scientist who lives and writes in North Carolina. Fiction writing is the space where her creative side comes out to play, and her writing centers on characters who discover that life is not a spectator sport. She has three grown sons, two crazy dogs, and one patient husband. When not busy writing, she loves hiking, travel, and (of course) curling up with a good book.
This is a work of fiction. All of the names, characters, organizations, places and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to real or actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2021 by Rebecca Hodge
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Crooked Lane Books, an imprint of The Quick Brown Fox & Company LLC.
Crooked Lane Books and its logo are trademarks of The Quick Brown Fox & Company LLC.
Library of Congress Catalog-in-Publication data available upon request.
ISBN (hardcover): 978-1-64385-754-1
ISBN (ebook): 978-1-64385-755-8
Cover design by Nicole Lecht
Printed in the United States.
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First Edition: September 2021
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