On my wedding day, I walked in with a black eye. My fiancé stood beside me… and when he looked at my mother, he smiled. Then he said, “She needed to learn.” The room burst into laughter. And that’s when I did something no one expected.

But even in the safety of her own home, Olivia knew she couldn’t hide forever. The reality of her situation began to sink in: she had walked away from the life she thought she was going to have, and now, she had to build something new. The uncertainty of it all was overwhelming, but it also held a strange kind of promise. The life she was about to continue reading …