As Blake Blackman left Monroe, North Carolina, to go to college, she thought she had a plan for her life. She'd get a degree, build a career, then probably get married and have kids-someday. But the school she chose was all wrong for her, and then she met a boy. The boy. Before she knew it, she and Zach were inseparable. And then she discovered that she was pregnant. By the time Blake was twenty-one years old, she had already renegotiated her dreams to become a wife and stay-at-home mother. Her personal losses grew deeper when she and Zach lost a child and their marriage dissolved under the...
As Blake Blackman left Monroe, North Carolina, to go to college, she thought she had a plan for her life. She'd get a degree, build a career, then pro...