Lindsey Evelyn Strauss was Lucas’ book-editor and ex-fiancée. When she started to edit his book, they fell in love with each other. She came to Tree Hill when Lucas had writers block. She felt threatened when Brooke and Peyton returned to Tree Hill, knowing Lucas’ history with the two girls. She eventually tried to be friendly to the two girls but Peyton didn’t trust her. Later, when Peyton apologised, she agreed to go with Lucas to the opening of Brooke’s store. But when she found out that Peyton still had feelings for Lucas, she asked him to stop seeing her. After Lucas kissed Peyton, he proposed to Lindsey, and she said yes. She asked Haley, whom she had befriended, to be her maid of honor and asked Brooke to make her dress. When she got stuck in the Tree Hill Library with Haley, Brooke, Peyton and Mia, she told them her father died from cancer and she had to take him off the ventilator because her mother was too destroyed to do it. The night before the wedding she read Lucas’ second novel. At the wedding she realized the book was about Peyton, Lucas’ ‘Comet’, and left Lucas at the altar. Four weeks later Lucas returned to her, she said she still loved Lucas but she can’t be with him. She returned for Jamie’s fifth birthday party and after the party she went to Lucas’ house to get her last stuff and to give her key back. She later tells him she is dating someone and gave him his book, telling him he can email her the dedication. When he did, she realized she still loved him and confessed that she lied about seeing someone else. She later learned from Lucas that he and Peyton are engaged. She never shows up at the launch of Lucas’s second book but sent someone else in her place.

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5.01 Four Years, Six Months, and Two Days
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