Status Updates From Bloody Rose (The Band, #2)

…the woman who emerged was distinctly changed from the girl who entered.
Her smiles were shorter. Her laughs were louder. She became distracted at times, and would stare at nothing with a look of shattered sorrow that passed like a cloud the moment someone spoke her name.
She loved less quickly, but more fiercely, and made certain that those she cared for knew it well.
Sometimes she wept when it snowed.