What We Leave Behind

What We Leave Behind

In life, the choices we make define who we become. But what happens when those choices threaten to unravel everything we hold dear?

Jessica Parker is haunted by her past, still reeling from the death of her father and the heartbreak of a failed first love. Despite her best efforts to move forward, she can't forget the boy who stole her heart all those years ago.

As she builds a successful career in the music industry and starts a family, her life seems perfect. But when a devastating loss shakes her to the core, Jessica's carefully crafted world begins to crumble. And when a long-hidden secret comes to light, she finds herself facing a modern-day moral dilemma that threatens all she's built. With her marriage on the line and her world turned upside down, Jessica must confront the pain of her past and reconcile old feelings if she hopes to salvage her future.

From the USA Today bestselling author of This is Not How it Ends comes a powerful and emotionally charged tale of love, loss, and redemption. What We Leave Behind is for anyone who has questioned their past and wondered what could have been.

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  • Compelling...What We Leave Behind's twists and turns generate real tension, and Weinstein renders Jessica's feelings with enough complexity that her ultimate decision carries emotional weight...[Weinstein] tells a good love story.

  • What We Leave Behind is a first novel I highly recommend. This is honest, powerful writing at its best, targeted especially at any woman who has ever wondered what might have been

  • What We Leave Behind is a compelling voice for women who struggle with secrets from their past.

  • Each word of What We Leave Behind invokes raw emotion as we are brought deeper into the soul of a woman that can be any of us. This moving story will echo strongly with any woman who has had to face love and loss, life and death, and everything in between

  • A genre of what I’d call ‘chick lit but not’, because this had so much depth and heart. Filled with heartache, first loves, lost loves, motherhood, marriage, pining, obligations and wonder; this book offered something for all women who enjoy a good read with a heaping dose of romance. Weinstein has a knack for creating realistic scenes, likeable characters, good plot twists and a nicely drawn out ending. Four Stars.

  • From the moment I turned the page, I was immediately drawn into Jessie’s world. The story was intricately woven with the lives of Jessie, Jonas and Marty. What We Leave Behind is a simple yet such a poignant tale of life, love, the choices we make and the result of those choices.