The Ghost of Us

by Persephone Fletcher

Jane Whitman finds herself a young, widowed empty nester as her youngest child leaves for college. Having spent the three years since her husband’s death focusing primarily on single parenthood and rebuilding her life as a mother and artist, Jane’s world is knocked askew by a chance meeting with handsome stranger, Rob Daniels. Jane’s visceral reaction to Rob reawakens the physical desires that had been dormant since the death of her husband.

While Jane is mesmerized by Rob’s intellect, charm, and wit, she is also reluctant to pursue a relationship given that her oldest child has gone missing, another suburban casualty of the opioid epidemic that gripped him in the wake of his father’s death. With her complicated family situation and crippling anxieties about learning to love again, Jane tentatively allows herself to be seduced while keeping the realities of her son’s problem from Rob.

When Jane finally accepts Rob’s intentions for a long term relationship, she admits to him that loving her may be more of a complex matter than he is ready for. Jane begins to ease into the warmth of Rob's love, only to find that Rob may have some secrets of his own...

223 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 26, 2023