When to Let Go: A Memoir of Grief and Witness

After the worst summer of her life-marked by grief, injury, and a bone-deep exhaustion she cannot outrun-an author opens her door to the impossible. Three nineteenth-century privateer captains arrive-impossibly-in modern New England. For a few luminous days, the world feels elastic: airplanes and ice cream, weather forecasts and laughter. Brendan is steady and kind. Kieran is sensitive and searching. Connor is brilliant, impulsive, and dangerously out of time. The woman who welcomes them knows these men well-because she created them. She knows their histories. She knows their loves. And she knows what fate awaits one of them. As delight deepens into attachment, the urge to protect becomes almost unbearable. To warn. To interfere. To save.