In the beginning it was beautiful. Roses on her doorstep. Phone calls in the middle of the day. Chicken soup the day she was home with the flu. Jake was the most thoughtful guy Charlotte had ever met. There just had to be something wrong with him, she thought. He was too perfect.

“Charlotte, why do you always have to go looking for the negative? Just accept that he’s perfect.” Those were the words of her best friend, Nina. But there was something wrong, terribly wrong with Jake. It would be many months, however, before Nina would become aware of this and realize that Charlotte had been right.

On their one year anniversary, Jake and Charlotte decided to spend the weekend at a resort in Key West. Nina had gone shopping with Charlotte to help her find the perfect bathing suit. She privately thought Charlotte was the luckiest girl alive.

Which was perhaps why the news came as such a shock to Nina: Charlotte and Jake got into a car accident on the way to the resort. Jake had a broken nose. Charlotte was dead.