Life Ends, Love Remains

Ridgefield, Connecticut. A cemetery. A Revolutionary War soldier. A ghost. A writer. 1777 meets 2024.

Clara Donovan, a divorced novelist, moves into her late grandmother’s Connecticut home after a failed marriage and a failed book. She wants silence and a second chance.

Benjamin Whitlock, a woodworker turned soldier for a day, killed at the Battle of Ridgefield on April 27, 1777, has haunted the local cemetery for two hundred and forty-seven years. He wants to be heard.

Eliza Hartwell, dead since 1851, has been weeping in that same cemetery for one hundred and seventy-three years. She wants her story told before it disappears entirely.

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