The Things We Lose Along the Way

Some things we lose because we choose to let them go. Others disappear before we're ready. And sometimes, what comes after is something we never knew to look for.

Ten contemporary romance stories explore the lives we leave behind, the memories we carry with us, and the unexpected connections that appear when the future no longer looks the way we once imagined.

A woman sorting the last box from a seven-year relationship discovers that letting go does not mean erasing the good years. A widow's weekly bus ride to her husband's grave slowly becomes shared with another passenger carrying a grief of his own. A man closes the family restaurant he never meant to inherit, only to meet a woman who remembers the place almost as vividly as he does. An unworn wedding dress finds a new bride. An old piano becomes the beginning of something neither its owner nor the man tuning it expected.

Elsewhere, a childhood summer house is sold, a missing year of family photographs exposes a carefully buried truth, an innocent drawer reveals a private history of loss, and two people in their forties confront the lives they once assumed they would have.

Tender, intimate, hopeful, and sometimes bittersweet, The Things We Lose Along the Way is a collection about grief without hopelessness, endings without erasure, and the possibility that a life can change shape without becoming smaller.

Ten stories about what we lose, what we keep, and what we make room for next.