Claire stood in the small dressing room at the community chapel, adjusting the simple white dress she'd found at a consignment shop; it wasn't elaborate or expensive, just a knee-length dress with lace sleeves and a modest neckline, but it was hers, chosen freely, and it represented everything she'd become since leaving prison six months ago.

Her parole officer had approved the wedding with minimal complications, and Liam had planned the ceremony with attention to what Claire needed: small, ...