""Fly free." For ten years those words, written on pink parchment paper in her mother's beautiful handwriting, have been Suda Kaye Ross's guiding star. Every year on her birthday, Suda Kaye opens another of the letters her mother penned before she passed, heeding the advice inside as she fills her life with experiences. From Italy to Australia, from Rio to Russia, she's slaked her wanderlust. And then, on her twenty-eighth birthday, she opens the...

When her newly discovered half-sisters whisk her away to the small town of Pueblo, Colorado, 25-year-old Isabeau Collins decides to put down roots with a family she never knew she had and is drawn to a man in whom she recognizes a loss similar to her own.