The Loves That Stay

Three Generations. Three Love Stories. One Truth.

She writes herself letters so she won't forget how to love him.

Eleanor has Alzheimer's. Every morning, she wakes up in a house she doesn't recognize, next to a man she can't remember. But in her nightstand is a journal—written in her own handwriting—that begins: "If you're reading this, you've forgotten. Let me remind you who you love."

For fifty years, Eleanor has documented her marriage. The fights. The failures. The almost-divorce no one knew about. The best friend who fell in love with her husband. And the choice she made—every single day—to stay.

Now her daughter Kate is sorting through those journals, and what she discovers will change everything she thought she knew about love, sacrifice, and what it really means to keep a promise.

Three women. Three generations. Three love stories.

LILY (17) is falling in love for the first time—with a boy whose family history is tangled with her own in ways neither of them understands.

KATE (42) is watching her marriage crumble in slow motion, unable to remember when she stopped trying.

ELEANOR (71) is losing her memory—but the words she wrote decades ago are about to save the people she'll never remember loving.

When a sealed envelope is discovered—addressed to Lily, written before Eleanor's diagnosis—the truth emerges: these journals were never about Eleanor remembering her own story.

They were about teaching the next generation how to love.

What readers are saying:

"I ugly cried for the last three chapters."

"The twist in chapter 13 destroyed me."

"This is The Notebook meets This Is Us. I couldn't put it down."

"Every woman needs to read this book."

The Loves That Stay is a sweeping, emotional novel about first love and lasting love, about the secrets families keep and the truths that set them free. It's about what happens when someone forgets you—and what it means to keep choosing them anyway.

For readers who loved The Notebook, The Fault in Our Stars, Firefly Lane, and It Ends With Us.

Some love stories end when memory fades.

This one is just beginning.