Across Time. The Waiting Heart, #2

Claire never expected to fall in love with a dead man. When she finds journals in her grandmother's attic, she discovers Owen Mitchell-a thoughtful young man who lived in 1925 and died too soon at twenty-four. His words reach across nearly a century and speak straight to her heart. He wrote about gardens, quiet moments, and waiting for someone who would truly understand him. That someone is Claire.
She's sure of it. She begins writing back to him in her own journal, having conversations across time that nobody else would understand. She plants the same garden he planted. She searches for the clearing in the woods where he sat and watched light filter through the trees. She lets the present world slip away as she reaches toward the past. But her work suffers. Her friends worry. Her sister keeps texting, asking if she's okay. Claire knows this connection isn't normal.
Owen has been gone for ninety-eight years. He lived and died before she was born. But his words make more sense than anything in her real life, and for the first time ever, she feels seen. As she reads through the final journals-1926, the year Owen died-Claire must face an impossible truth: you can't hold onto someone who's already gone. But maybe loving across time isn't about holding on. Maybe it's about understanding that some connections are so deep, not even death can break them. A moving story about love that transcends time, the cost of living in the past, and finding your way back to the present without losing what matters most.