Barefoot Toward Heaven

For Jake Foster, falling in love frequently involves at least a little bit of pain, perhaps because the majority of his life has been spent in love with the same woman. Lizzie Lavin has always been the sum total of his desires. She’s both intelligent and beautiful, and has provided Jake with a host of lessons throughout the course of their two lives. But no one has ever been able to hurt him quite as much as she could, and now she has done so again.

Lizzie has left Jake for good. After their...