THE LOVE I LOST — THE COMPLETE TRILOGY
Three books. One love story. A decade of silence, a century of letters, and a 78-year-old woman who refused to let it end the wrong way.
This is the story of Elena Reyes and Marcus Sullivan — from a crumbling Maine inn where they finally learned the truth, back to the five-hour coffee that started everything, through the decade of silence that nearly destroyed them both.
137 unanswered calls. 10 years of silence. One devastating lie.
And the love underneath — untouched.
BOOK 1: THE LOVE I LOST
Elena Reyes hasn’t set foot in Maine in ten years. Not since the weekend that changed everything — and the silence that followed.
Now she’s back. A career-defining restoration project at a crumbling Queen Anne Victorian on the coast of Pemaquid Point. The Harborview Inn needs saving. So, quietly, does she. What her client failed to mention: Marcus Sullivan is already there.
The truth comes out on a porch at dusk, ten years too late and just in time. Every call deleted. Every lie planted by the one person Elena trusted most — her college roommate, her best friend. The woman who watched their love like someone watching a house she wanted to burn down.
Then they find the letters — a cache of unsent love letters from 1915, hidden in the attic. William Whitmore to Catherine Ashworth. Two people separated by a controlling father, writing across years of silence to someone who would never read a word. They never reunited.
Elena and Marcus still might. And Dorothy Whitmore — the 78-year-old innkeeper who remembered a young couple lighting up her property a decade ago — is done watching love stories end the wrong way.
They restore the inn. The inn restores them.
Some love stories need a century-old letter, a crumbling inn, and a 78-year-old woman who refuses to let history repeat itself.
BOOK 2: THE FIRST TIME I MET YOU
She was rebuilding rooms. He was saving buildings. Neither knew they were both trying to fill the same emptiness.
Elena arrived at college carrying fourteen months of grief behind a smile. Marcus came from sawdust and blueprints. They met over coffee and Christopher Alexander. They stayed for five hours. They didn’t stop talking for two years. What they built wasn’t a relationship — it was architecture.
Then Sarah Chen — Elena’s roommate, her closest friend, the person she trusted with her keys, her passwords, her phone — watched Elena fall in love and decided to take it. Every call deleted. Every voicemail erased. Every text intercepted. A careful architecture of lies designed to make two people believe they’d been abandoned by the person who loved them most.
It worked.
Some people leave your life. Some are stolen from it.
BOOK 3: THE 10 YEARS WE WERE APART
Marcus became a preservation architect — a man who saves old buildings because he couldn’t save the one thing that mattered. He keeps the ring in a drawer. He drives to a lighthouse once a month. He has never loved anyone else.
Elena built a career restoring historic interiors — reassembling broken, beautiful things while refusing to examine her own wreckage. She sealed away every memory behind layers of professional discipline and emotional armor. It almost worked.
Dorothy Whitmore — the 78-year-old innkeeper who remembers everything — knows exactly which two people to hire for her crumbling inn. She just doesn’t mention they’ll be working together.
Eight weeks. One small inn on the Maine coast. Two people trapped between a love they buried alive and the terrifying possibility that it never actually died.
Some love stories end. Some just wait.
THE COMPLETE TRILOGY INCLUDES:
Book 1: The Love I Lost — The truth. The letters. The second chance.
Book 2: The First Time I Met You — The love. The betrayal. The silence.
Book 3: The 10 Years We Were Apart — The decade. The ring in the drawer. The inn.
For readers who love: Second chance romance with real emotional depth. Toxic friendships that make your blood boil. Forced proximity that actually means something. Found love letters from 1915. Elderly matchmakers who meddle for the right reasons. A love story that spans a decade — and echoes one from a century before.
Perfect for fans of: Nicholas Sparks · Colleen Hoover · Emily Henry · Sally Rooney · Carley Fortune · Nora Roberts · Mia Sheridan
One love story. Two timelines. Three chances to get it right. Only the last one matters.
Amanda S. –
Bought all three in one sitting after reading the first chapter. Best reading decision I’ve made all year.
BookTok Reviews –
A complete love story told across three perfect books. The bundle is the only way to read it — trust me.
Melissa T. –
This trilogy rewired something in my brain. Read all three in a weekend and I have zero regrets.