Poem to Bella from Jasper…

Bella Swan had finally learned that being loved and being allowed to choose were not always the same thing. In New Orleans, behind the walls of an old house that had become both sanctuary and fortress, Bella was building a life she had never expected with Jasper Whitlock. There was a baby coming, a family forming around them, and for the first time in longer than she could remember, Bella could say she was happy and mean every word. But across the street, the Cullens…

After returning from Italy, Bella discovers that Edward has already planned the rest of her life without asking what she wants, so she buys a converted little red school bus, leaves Forks and begins a yearlong adventure of roadside attractions, mechanical disasters and questionable navigation. Before leaving, however, she gives Jasper Whitlock a poem, a riddle and an invitation to meet her at Lake McDonald six months later, where the heart he unknowingly stole may finally lead them both home….

Bella Swan is four hours from marrying Edward Cullen when Jasper Whitlock comes through her window at half past four in the morning and tells her the truth: she was never Edward’s mate. She was his. What follows isn’t a rescue. It’s a runaway bride, a thousand miles of open road, and a girl who spent a year being told what she felt finally learning to say it out loud. How Am I Supposed to Live Without You is a story about the difference between…

Once upon a time, a girl was left in the woods because she wasn’t enough. She was wrong about almost everything that night, that girl, and so was he—but she got one thing right without knowing it: the woods were the place where the truth about her worth would be settled. It just took the right witnesses. It took a family that gathers, and a key cut on purpose, and a sound made for exactly one person, and twenty years of a man saying…

She opened the locker and knew immediately. It hadn’t been there before. The paper sat folded, deliberate, like it had been placed by someone who understood exactly how long she would take to notice. Bella didn’t reach for it right away. She just stood there, aware she wasn’t alone….