Before We Loved: A love story written by ghosts, delivered by time, lived by the living.

Description

Some love stories begin with a glance. This one begins with a letter that arrives before it’s written.

Grace Fletcher delivers mail in the small English town of Thornfield, a route she takes to fill the silence her daughter left behind. When letters to the reclusive composer Thomas Ashford begin humming with impossible music only she can hear, Grace discovers that her grief has cracked the very fabric of time .

Thomas, haunted by the loss of his own son, finds himself writing to a woman he’s never met but has somehow loved for sixty years . Their correspondence creates a paradox, a love loop where the future writes the past and death is just another kind of distance.

United by their impossible connection yet forbidden to touch, they learn that their love is the center of a phenomenon affecting the entire town. With the help of a community of grieving parents who also receive mail from the beyond, Grace and Thomas must navigate a romance where every letter heals an old wound and every shared secret rewrites history .

But their connection has rules. They are destined to fall in love, but a single premature touch could collapse the delicate temporal balance that keeps their worlds—and their lost children—within reach. Can they build a future on letters alone, or will their need for a simple touch shatter every timeline they’re trying to heal?

Perfect for fans of The Time Traveler’s Wife and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, Before We Loved is an unforgettable tale of impossible mail, backward-growing sunflowers, and the kind of love that makes the universe reorganize itself.

“Magical realism meets epic romance in this stunning debut that will make you check your mailbox with new hope and see every raindrop as a message from tomorrow.”