Threads

Description： My ex-boyfriend died, and yet I couldn't feel happy about it no matter how I tried.

We broke up four times and got back together three. Once he joked that I was destined to be tangled up with him for the rest of my life. And then the wretch went and ran off first.

Rowan Keller knew Julian Shaw for twelve years—first love, first heartbreak, and every awkward, ordinary thing in between. She always told herself they were wrong for each other: different worlds, different families, different hearts. So why, standing in a funeral home a thousand kilometers from the life she built, does she find she can't stop crying?

A quiet, aching meditation on first love and the friends who become fixtures of who we are, Threads is a diary written in memorial—to a boy, a decade, and the thin, unbreakable thread grief leaves behind.

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Release date

Ebook: 27 August 2026