Synopsis: Unfinished

Elyssa McMannen had everything going for her: Valedictorian of her class, Miss Verona Voice, early acceptance to her dream school, and the perfect boyfriend. On the graduation cruise that was meant to be the romantic last hurrah for Ely and her boyfriend before the distance of college came between them, Andrew Cutler died saving her life.

Four months later, instead of living in a dorm room at Columbia University, Elyssa and her mother have moved away to a creaky old house on a dead end street. The distance between her old home in New Jersey and her new home in Pennsylvania are meant to make her forget about Andrew and move on with her life. When she meets Stephen Balfour, the literal ghost in her closet, she has to question exactly how she is meant to "move on" as she is confronted with the very definition of someone who cannot do so.

In this story of love, loss, and recovery, Elyssa McMannen finds out exactly what they mean when people tell her that it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all... but not at all in the way she expected to.