She’d never been any farther north than the outlet mall at Anthem, on the far northern outskirts of Phoenix. Zoe didn’t know whether it was Levi or she herself who was more fascinated by the landscape passing by outside the car windows. The highway climbed, gaining altitude, and the saguaro cactus disappeared. Evan explained it was because they got snow up here, and the cactus weren’t hardy enough to survive at this altitude.
It had all been easier to arrange than she’d thought. Evan had spent some time on the phone with Angela — Zoe supposed it was a story that needed a good deal of explaining — and then gave Zoe the thumbs-up sign, indicating that his clan’s prima was just fine with taking on a man who hadn’t even been a man up until a few days earlier. After that, Evan was on the phone
