<Tab/>Ivy Rowe is raised in an isolated mountain home, with stories and fantasies of love, which lead her to believe that life outside of Sugar Fork is a fairyland, like in the books she has read. Despite her hardships, Ivy always chooses to view the starkness of reality romantically which exemplifies her lovelorn tendencies. In the novel, Ivy finds different kinds of love, each reflecting her life at the time. …showed first 75 words of 624 total…

…showed last 75 words of 624 total…other thought. School-girl love for Lonnie Rash, maternal love for Joli, love as deep as ones soul for Oakley, and even lust for Franklin Ransom and Honey Breeding were all on her mind as she wrote her last letter, to the memory of her deceased sister. Ivy is a flower, who needs the warmth and love of the sunlight, but must be weary of being scorched by the very rays that provide her with life.