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A Perfectly Good Heart
Paperback
Series: The Way We Were at Seventeen
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 18 2025
Pages: 40
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.08 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When Clara Wren's life fractures with a single text message, she retreats into the quiet order of her work as a rare book conservator. But a forgotten letter, slipped between the pages of a donated volume, pulls her into a mystery that refuses to stay buried.
The letter is unfinished. The signature is missing. The only clue is a faint watermark of a lighthouse - a beacon pointing her toward the rocky coast of Maine. What begins as professional curiosity soon becomes something deeper: a search for the truth behind another woman's abandoned story, and perhaps a way to make sense of her own.
In the harbor town of Greyhaven, Clara finds fragments of a life once lived in secret - handwritten pages, sea glass smoothed by time, and a lighthouse that seems to hold its breath. She also meets Jonah, a photographer with his own reasons for chasing what's been left behind. Together, they uncover a trail of words and silences that blur the line between past and present, love and loss, endings and beginnings.
Lyrical and haunting, A Perfectly Good Heart is a novel about the stories we inherit, the ones we leave unfinished, and the fragile beauty of what survives the tide.
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