The Ghost I Live With

By: Meadows, Ruth

Some people leave your life. They never leave your heart.

Set against the changing landscape of West Plains, Missouri, during the 1960s and 1970s, The Ghost I Live With is a deeply personal story of first love, memory, and the promises we carry through a lifetime.

With vivid details of small-town Ozarks life and glimpses into the history of the community she called home, Ruth Meadows recreates the people, places, and era that shaped her. At the center is the love that became part of her--and remained through every chapter of the complicated life that followed.

With tenderness and unflinching honesty, she explores love, choices, separation, loss, and the strange way grief and gratitude can occupy the same heart. This is not a story about refusing to move forward. It is about discovering that moving forward does not require us to forget.

A Missouri love story rooted in a time and place that no longer exist quite as they once did, The Ghost I Live With is for anyone who has loved someone, lost them too soon, and could never completely leave them behind.

Love never left her. It simply learned how to stay.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GJTSG46Z
• ISBN13: 9798245350660
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"