B_B_Silvers
Dear Heart,
You'll want to know, early, whether you can trust what I tell you. I can't help you with that. I never could.
She writes to him every night. About the morning they met. About the years she waited, patient and unseen, while he loved other women badly and came back to her to be forgiven for it. About the promises he made and the ones she decided he'd made, which by now amount to the same thing.
He was kind to her once. That was enough. That was everything.
This is her diary - tender, articulate, and utterly without mercy. It begins as a love letter. It becomes a confession. And somewhere in the space between those two things, the reader will realize the truth she has known, calmly, from the very first page: that "Dear Heart" was never a term of endearment.
It was an inventory.
"Dear Heart- What I kepf of you" is a descent into a mind that has mistaken devotion for destiny - a woman who kept every promise he never made, and, in the end, kept something else of his too. Unflinching, hypnotic, and quietly terrifying, this is a novel about the stories we tell to survive our own love - and the ones we tell to survive what we did because of it.
She never gives you her name. By the last page, you won't need it. You'll already know exactly who she is.