Love and Loss

Tragic circumstances steer these characters toward unexpected outcomes.

Every Time You Go Away by Beth Harbison

When Willa enters her beach house for the first time since her husband, Ben, died there three years before, she feels a presence that later manifests as his ghost. Is she going crazy, or is he really there with her? Ultimately, Willa and her teenage son, Jamie, find healing through their time at the beach, and they are finally able to put Ben to rest.

The Dream Daughter by Diane Chamberlain

Carly’s unborn baby has a lifethreatening heart condition. It’s 1970, years before the first fetal surgery, but her brother-in-law, Hunter, has a plan to transport her to 2001 so she can undergo the necessary procedure. This riveting story alternates between Carly’s and Hunter’s voices.

The Bookshop of Yesterdays by Amy Meyerson

Miranda’s uncle always hosted scavenger hunts for her when she was a kid. But after years without him in her life, she learns he has died. He’s left her his bookshop— which is brimming with Miranda’s childhood memories—and a note containing the first of many clues. She must solve her uncle’s clues to help save the store and learn why he disappeared so long ago.

“The waves crashed on the shore over and over, a slow meter in the background, like in the song ‘Bridge over Troubled Water.’ It was soothing. It was alive. It held life, I reminded myself.” BETH HARBISON, EVERY TIME YOU GO AWAY