The Goodbye She Wrote: A Wartime Romance
He hires her to write goodbye letters for his daughter. He never expects her to become the woman he cannot bear to leave behind.
Harbor's End, Maine, 1943.
Clara Bennett makes a living finding the words other people cannot say. At The Last Word Letter Co., she helps strangers turn regrets into apologies, longing into love letters, and difficult goodbyes into something worth keeping.
Then widowed carpenter Callum Brooks walks through her door with a request unlike any other.
With wartime orders approaching, Callum wants letters prepared for his seven-year-old daughter, Lily-letters she can open on the birthdays, heartbreaks, and ordinary days he may never be there to share. Lily has already lost her mother. Callum cannot bear the thought of leaving her with nothing but silence.
Clara agrees to help. But getting the stubborn carpenter to talk about his feelings proves considerably harder than getting him to repair her leaking roof.
Soon there is sawdust in her shop, unexpected laughter at her supper table, and a little girl who has decided Clara belongs in more of their lives than anyone intended.
And somewhere between sharp exchanges, stolen moments, and conversations that last longer than they should, Clara discovers that the man preparing for goodbye is becoming the one person she desperately wants to stay.
Then a decades-old love letter hidden inside the shop wall draws them into a mystery of lost promises and words that never reached their destination.
As Callum's departure approaches, the feelings neither planned to have become impossible to ignore.
He has written letters for every future he might miss. But the one future he wants most is the one he has not dared to ask Clara to share.
A heartfelt World War II historical romance filled with small-town warmth, a widowed single father, unexpected love, found family, and the courage to begin again.
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