Something…something magical, she thought as she scratched out another word on the rough paper. Something that would have made the day just absolutely perfect. Although her abuela and mother always warned Josephine that she let her imagination (and her temper) get away from her too often, she couldn’t shake the idea that something had been missing. Today she had turned twenty-one years old, and despite the happy celebration she’d shared with her mother and abuela and her friends from the hotel where she worked, Josephine couldn’t help but feel that the day had been incomplete. That hope had lingered in her heart and the idea had clung in the back of her mind ever since her abuela had read that first fairy tale to her as a child. As the story spilled over onto the page, she finally felt like she was moving one step closer to her dream of becoming a writer. Excitement welled up within Josephine, and the ideas percolated until they were bubbling so quickly, they were like water ready to boil. She leaned close to the oil lantern beside her, pouring her imagination out onto the pages, wanting to immortalize the images quickly before they flickered out and faded away. Pictures played across her mind as she tried valiantly to capture the right words to describe them.

The rasp of Josephine’s pencil on the page of the pristine journal her mother had gifted her that very day was loud in the still of a sultry Miami night. On the night that Josephine Galena Valencia turned twenty-one years old, a miracle happened. Knowing what would happen-the heartbreak, the tears, the love, the hope, the betrayal, the heartbreak (yes, it was always the heartbreak)-would she do it over? And she knew the answer was yes because of how it all ended. You will continue to receive exclusive offers in your inbox. Click below to sign up and see terms and conditions.Īlready a subscriber? Provide your email again so we can register this ebook and send you more of what you like to read. Plus, get updates on new releases, deals, recommended reads, and more from Simon & Schuster. Get a FREE ebook when you join our mailing list. Thank you for downloading this Simon & Schuster ebook. DEIRDRE SHAW, author of Love or Something Like It

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