My God, Jane thought, how lucky can one woman be?
When Jane stepped from the house into the backyard, the band began playing a simple but beautiful instrumental version of “Somewhere over the Rainbow.”
Jane looked at all the faces of the people turned around in their white chairs. Among them she saw Marj and her husband, Bill. She saw Caleb’s music friends and the warehouse workers. And she saw her mother, sitting next to her brother, Jon, who was finally out of jail and, at least for today, sober. She saw Mrs. Hawthorne’s urn glinting in the sun. And she saw their new neighbors, desperately chasing down their kids, who had abandoned their chairs to play a game of tag around the tree in the corner of the yard. She saw Mr. Zigler in his best Sunday suit, standing proudly beneath the arch he had helped build, his mail-order license in his pocket, ready to marry them. And she saw Caleb beside him, looking very much indeed like a prince.
She and Caleb smiled at each other, fifty feet of grass the only thing in the world left between them. Then Jane set Harmony down on the lawn beside her and squatted to look into her daughter’s green eyes.
“Do you know that I love you more than anything else in the world, sweetie?”
“I love you too, Mommy.”
“Will you take me to your father now so I can marry him?”
Harmony smiled, her curls bouncing as she nodded. “Daddy showed me how.”
Jane stood and took her daughter’s tiny hand in hers. Then she leaned her head back and closed her eyes for a moment. The sun was warm on her face and the music played beautifully in her ears. She could almost feel her friend Grace and her daughter Melody smiling down on them today.
Jane opened her eyes and looked ahead at the man she loved, where he waited for her beneath an arch covered with a garland made of flowers. Then she smiled down at her daughter and nodded.
“I’m ready now,” she said.
Harmony took the first confident step toward the altar and Jane followed, walking down the grassy aisle toward her future.
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Ryan Winfield is the New York Times bestselling author of Jane’s Harmony, Jane’s Melody, South of Bixby Bridge, and the Park Service trilogy. He lives in Seattle. To connect with Ryan, visit him at RyanWinfield.com.
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Contents
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Dedication
Part One
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Part Two
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Part Three
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Epilogue
About the Author
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