A Perfectly Good Heart

By: Barenthaler, Kristen

When Clara Wren's life fractures with a single text message, she retreats into the quiet order of her work as a rare book conservator. But a forgotten letter, slipped between the pages of a donated volume, pulls her into a mystery that refuses to stay buried.

The letter is unfinished. The signature is missing. The only clue is a faint watermark of a lighthouse - a beacon pointing her toward the rocky coast of Maine. What begins as professional curiosity soon becomes something deeper: a search for the truth behind another woman's abandoned story, and perhaps a way to make sense of her own.

In the harbor town of Greyhaven, Clara finds fragments of a life once lived in secret - handwritten pages, sea glass smoothed by time, and a lighthouse that seems to hold its breath. She also meets Jonah, a photographer with his own reasons for chasing what's been left behind. Together, they uncover a trail of words and silences that blur the line between past and present, love and loss, endings and beginnings.

Lyrical and haunting, A Perfectly Good Heart is a novel about the stories we inherit, the ones we leave unfinished, and the fragile beauty of what survives the tide.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FWZG4WVW
• ISBN13: 9798270547998
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"