With the release date of Terms of Surrender closing in, I wanted to tell y'all a little bit about how this book came to be.I started writing TERMS when I turned thirty-seven. I'd spent a week in Folly Beach, SC, and one afternoon sightseeing in Charleston. Just one. Like a great love story, one afternoon was all it took to be swept up by this magical city. Now, don't get me wrong here. My love affair with the South was decades into no return, but standing under the Haint blue ceiling of a wid...