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the song? And all she could think about then was Cody, how they’d play this song at their wedding someday.
    Bailey smiled at the memory. She’d been so young, just a kid, a high school girl who saw Cody Coleman as bigger than life.
    She fixed her eyes on the winding turns that made up Pacific Coast Highway, turned up the volume, and sang along. Her voice stayed soft, the memory of the song as much a part of the past as any photo or letter. She loved the lyrics — how they spoke of God’s hand in finding true love and the promise of forever. Bailey had never shared the song with Cody. She’d found it when he was little more than a secret crush, and by the time they finally admitted their feelings for each other, they ran out of time before it came up.
    Where Cody was concerned there was never enough time.
    Tears filled Bailey’s eyes and she blinked so she could focus on the road. She could still see herself cleaning her room while the song played from her iPod speakers, still feel what it felt to believe he was the one, to believe God had created Cody for her.
    She dabbed at her cheek and let the ocean air dry her face. The tears surprised her, because she didn’t love Cody that way anymore, the way she thought she did back then. She knew that now. He was more of a big brother to her, someone she looked up to. The same way she’d been only that for him. But still, she missed those days. Missed the way he’d always been around back then. He made her feel safe and protected and the fact that he adored her family was part of it too. How could it not be?
    The two of them hadn’t talked since Bloomington, when they took a walk around Lake Monroe a few days after Cody’s girlfriend, Cheyenne, died from her brief battle with cancer. He was finishing up the semester teaching at Lyle High School an hour outside of Indianapolis, but then what? Bailey had Brandon now. But since God hadn’t made her and Cody for each other, who would Cody find? And without meaning to, Bailey slipped into a silent prayer for her old dear friend.
    That God would comfort him in his season of loss, and thatin time He would give to Cody what He had so clearly given to Bailey.
    A love that had been created for him since the beginning of time.
    A LL NIGHT THE CLOCK ON A NDI E LLISON’S COMPUTER seemed to be racing in double-time until finally a few minutes ago she submitted the online test for her business marketing class. She leaned back in her chair and for the first time in two hours she felt herself relax. More than that, she felt great about herself. She was doing something she had doubted she’d ever do: Finishing school.
    Despite her rebellious choices back at Indiana University and her wrong relationship with a guy she barely knew. Even after getting pregnant and giving her baby up for adoption to Luke and Reagan Baxter, when the enemy of her soul wanted her to believe her life was tarnished forever, God had done the unthinkable.
    He had breathed fresh hope into her soul.
    She was taking small parts in Christian films and working as an assistant to her producer father. But now she was also tackling online courses, working to finish her marketing degree. Something she wasn’t sure she’d ever do again.
    The reality made her feel wonderful, even if it didn’t quite take the edge off her loneliness.
    She moved her mouse to the Safari browser and opened Facebook. Her life involved very little social interaction, and for a long time Andi could feel God working in the silence: the nine months when she carried her firstborn son, the year of moving to Los Angeles with her family and finding her way back to the heart of God; and now the busyness with acting and working. All of it had left Andi with few chances to meet people.
    Her Facebook newsfeed popped up, and she scanned a few status updates from acquaintances she’d met on a handful of sets.But her time with the cast and crew was always too brief to establish real friendships. Whether with