The Last Letter

The Last Letter

She thought she knew their love story. The second letter changed everything.

Every year on her birthday, Claire receives a letter from her husband—written before he died seven years ago. They've been her lifeline. Her proof that love can survive even the cruelest goodbye.

Until this year, when two letters arrive.

The first is everything she expects: his gentle humor, his quiet faith in her strength, his reminder to keep living.
The second contains just three words that upend everything she thought she knew:

Ask Dawson why.

Dawson Winters—her late husband's best friend. The man who held her through the worst nights. Who fixed her leaking roof at midnight. Who taught her daughter to ride a bike. The man she's been falling for despite the guilt that keeps her awake at night.

Some secrets are meant to protect us. Some truths break us to set us free.
And sometimes, the greatest act of love is letting someone go… even after you're gone.