The Things We Left Unsaid (The Art of Coming Back)

By Alex Moran

Viv Martin thought survival would feel more like freedom.

After years of loving Shay through addiction, relapse, recovery, and everything left broken between them, Viv is finally learning how to live beyond the emergency. Her art is changing, her world is opening, and for the first time in a long time, someone new makes her feel like happiness might not have to come with guilt.

Iris is warm, honest, and unafraid of complicated things. She sees Viv not as someone damaged by the past, but as someone still becoming. But as Viv begins to move toward something new, Shay is forced to face a truth she has buried beneath jealousy, fear, and old habits: she is still in love with Viv.

Determined not to turn her feelings into another burden Viv has to carry, Shay keeps the truth to herself. But silence has a weight of its own, and as the lines between friendship, love, healing, and letting go become harder to define, all of them must learn what it means to make room for the past without letting it decide the future.

Tender, emotional, and unresolved in all the right ways, The Things We Left Unsaid is a story about love that lingers, truths that wait, and the people we become when we finally stop running from what we feel.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H65FT9RJ
• ISBN13: 9798182401531
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.1" x 6.0"