Catching Stars in Jars

By: Ellis, Sinara

Love doesn't always end with happily ever after-but life goes on.

Long-retired author Elijah Dirk has lived a long life. Nearing his 100th birthday, he picks up a worn book and begins reading to a bedridden fellow nursing home resident and the eager staff who gather round to listen to a love story most could only dream of.

Decades ago, Elijah was a poor midwestern boy with a gift for baseball and a heart full of hope. Maggie Montgomery was the girl from Boston he could never stop loving-rich, headstrong, and always just out of reach. Life pulled them apart more than once: first by war, then by silence, and finally by time. Despite building separate lives, they always found their way back to one another... eventually.

Told through the eyes of a man revisiting the love that shaped him, Catching Stars in Jars is a poignant, nostalgic novel about memory, aging, and the beauty of what almost was. A love story not of grand declarations but of quiet devotion-of remembering when, even when the world forgets.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FTTBK42B
• ISBN13: 9798823209977
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: 4 Horsemen Publications
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.0"