The Things We Leave Unfinished

Georgia Stanton is twenty-eight and starting over after a hard divorce. She moves into the Colorado estate that belonged to her late great-grandmother, Scarlett Stanton, expecting solitude. Instead she finds a stranger already installed: Noah Harrison, a romance novelist whose charm on the page does not carry over to real life.

Scarlett's publisher has hired Noah to complete the final manuscript she left behind. Georgia, who has her own claim on the house and the family's past, ends up working alongside him. Together they go through the unfinished pages and a box of old letters.

The letters change how they read the book. The novel is not invented. It is a true account of a love affair Scarlett had with a young pilot while she was in England during World War II, and nobody in the family ever heard her speak of it.

The book alternates between present-day Colorado and the past Scarlett kept hidden. It is a romance in two time periods, with a slow-burning, bickering pairing in the present and a love story shadowed by war in the past. Georgia and Noah try to learn why Scarlett stopped writing, and they must decide how her story should end and what to do about their own.