Love's Endurance. Isle of Skye, 1967.

Isle of Skye, 1967 — 7:45 a.m. On a stormy morning by the cliffs, Fiona Kerr tightened her shawl and glanced at her wrist — a bracelet etched with tiny roses, petals curling outward in defiance of the wind. It had been a gift from her father, who’d shaped it from her late mother’s floral tongs.“She was the wild rose,” he’d said, “soft when the world was kind, strong when it wasn’t.” Fiona wore it like a shield of beauty and resilience, the silver catching the dawn as if her mother still walked beside her through the rain.