
Eliza Banks is the perfect housewife: dutiful, attentive, considerate. She knows there is nothing more she could possibly want than what she already has. Her husband, her childhood sweetheart, is the kind of man other girls would give their lives to get their hands on. Her life is idyllic, picture-perfect. Eliza Banks’ life is surely a dream come true.
But all of her delusions come crumbling down with the return on Callie Stewart seven years after she last saw the woman, storming from her bedroom in the early hours of the morning. Eliza knows it’s a dangerous game she’s playing when she offers to help Callie pack up some of her belongings in her old house. She knows, deep down, this can only end badly.
Old feelings stir, old flames are sparked, and everything Eliza worked so hard to bury beneath the folds of a wedding dress comes rising to the surface once more.

Before She Goes By Katie Brown It takes a long time for Eliza Ryder to become Eliza Banks. It takes a long time to become accustomed to a different last name, the last remnants of her childhood slipping away as soon as she utters “I do.” It was peculiar, she later thinks, that her first thought as George slipped the ring onto her finger was of Callie—that she saw her old friend as vividly as if they were standing beside each other, rain-drenched hair, bright eyes full of recklessness and excitement and so very, very different from George. Imagining that girl before her on the altar she allowed her husband a chaste kiss and buried those memories beneath the folds of her wedding dress, silenced them with the soft applause of the congregation. “Mrs. Banks,” George whispered in her ear, and
