Life Ends, Love Remains: A Revolutionary Ghost Story by Sarah Branson

Life Ends, Love Remains: A Revolutionary Ghost Story is a new book by Sarah Branson, set to be released in September 2026.

When Clara Donovan flees a failed marriage and a failed novel to her late grandmother's house in Ridgefield, Connecticut, she expects quiet. Instead she finds Benjamin Whitlock, a Revolutionary War soldier who has haunted the local cemetery since the night he died on April 27, 1777, and the sound of a woman weeping among the gravestones. A woman who has been weeping, Whit tells her, for nearly two centuries.

Her name is Eliza Hartwell. She died in 1851, still mourning her husband and infant son who were erased from history. When Clara agrees to write Eliza's story, she sets in motion something she never anticipated: a love story of her own, tender, impossible, and intimate despite the uncrossable distance between the living and the dead.

As Clara's book finds its way into the world, she must reckon with what loving a ghost actually costs: the career pulling her forward and the growing certainty that Whit, who has finally learned what love is, will sacrifice everything to set her free.

Some loves defy every law of nature. Some stories can only end one way. And some choices, once made, change everything on both sides of the veil. Life Ends, Love Remains is a sweeping, emotionally rich novel about undying love, who gets to be remembered and who gets erased, and what it costs to refuse to let someone disappear.

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