The Loves We Lost

A Story of the One Who Walked Away

She loved him first. And she never stopped.

Before she was Ethan's grandmother, Maggie Reyes was Eleanor's best friend—and secretly in love with the man Eleanor married.

This is her side of the story.

The garden party wasn't fate. It was a choice.

Maggie saw James first. She felt the spark, recognized the possibility of something real. But Eleanor was broken, still healing from a devastating betrayal, desperately needing to believe in love again.

So Maggie made a choice. She arranged a party. She introduced them. She gave away the man she loved because she thought her best friend needed him more.

Then she spent fifty years regretting it.

The letters. The silence. The decades of loving someone she could never have.

Through young love and impossible choices, through a marriage that wasn't hers to watch and a friendship she had to walk away from, Maggie carried her secret. She built a new life in San Diego, raised a daughter alone, and buried her heart so deep she almost forgot it was there.

But some loves refuse to stay buried.

When Maggie learns that Eleanor has Alzheimer's—that the woman who got to keep James is now losing him one memory at a time—she's forced to confront everything she gave up and everything she gained.

A love story about the one who walked away.

Told through letters never sent, memories never shared, and a final confession that will change everything, The Loves We Lost is a devastating companion to The Loves That Stay.

If Book 1 asked "What does it mean to stay?"—Book 2 asks the harder question: "What does it cost to let go?"

For readers who loved:
- The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
- One Day by David Nicholls
- Atonement by Ian McEwan
- The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo

Some love stories have happy endings.
Some love stories teach us that letting go is its own kind of love.

This is one of those stories.