The List She Left Us: An Emotional Second-Chance Romance

By Ilias Z

Her best friend left her one last list. Twelve items. One year. And the one person she was never supposed to fall for.

Nora Callahan has survived the worst night of her life the only way she knows how: by keeping everything under control. Then her best friend Lena's will is read, and the terms are impossible - complete the bucket list Lena left behind, all twelve items, within one year. Together. With Asher Marsh: Lena's estranged brother, a carpenter with six years of silence behind him and a voicemail he's never been able to play.

A sunrise swim. An open-mic stage. A valley full of synchronous fireflies. A hot-air balloon over the Rio Grande. Item by item, two strangers bound by the same grief crisscross the country with a dog, an old film camera, and one rule - one frame a day - and somewhere between the items, the list starts doing exactly what Lena built it to do.

But Lena left more behind than a list. And when Nora and Ash discover what their best friend and sister was really carrying in her last year, everything they think they know about the night she died - and about each other - changes.

A sweeping, heart-wrenching, ultimately hopeful novel about grief, second chances, and the people who leave the kitchen open - for readers who love emotional road-trip romance, found family, and love stories that are earned, not given.

Grab the tissues. Then grab the list.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HCWZLNH3
• ISBN13: 9798190581270
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"