Naomi immediately bonds with the girl and accepts her responsibility as her guardian. She disappears and leaves her daughter behind, a precocious and smart 11-year-old girl named Waylay. Her sister tricks her and steals her car and cash. Realizing the enormity of her mistake in getting engaged to this man, Naomi squeezed out of a church bathroom window during the rehearsal. Although Naomi and her sister have drifted apart, Naomi is eager to reconnect and help out as a way to handle her emotional stress days earlier, she skipped out on her wedding to a wealthy entrepreneur. Naomi Witt arrives in the small, northern Virginia town of Knockemout to help out her twin sister, Tina. The novel is told in first-person chapters that alternate between Naomi Witt’s and Knox Morgan’s perspectives. The novel is also intended for mature readers, and features strong language and sexually explicit scenarios, some of which are reproduced or represented in this guide. This study guide uses the 2022 Bloom paperback edition of the novel.Ĭontent Warning: This novel contains instances of domestic violence and child endangerment. In late 2022, Score announced on her website that she completed a second volume, The Things We Hide from the Light, set in the same town with some of the same characters. A veteran romance fiction writer with more than 30 titles published, Score found popular success with Things We Never Got Over, which became both a New York Times and Amazon best seller.

Score also explores the dark psychology of sibling rivalry, the challenges and complications of adoption, and how wealth can both create and destroy love. The novel plays with familiar elements and themes of the romance genre, including the courage it takes for a wounded heart to rediscover passion, the critical support of friends and family, and the hopeful power of love.

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