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Keeping Notes
On a rainy day in March 1979, twenty-four-year-old Dara sits by her dying mother’s side, ready to share good news. What she hopes will bring excitement instead draws an unexpected response: a request to retrieve a leatherbound journal hidden inside a keepsake box.
A tale of ambition, love, and heartbreak.
Blair’s writing chronicles her life in the 1940s and 1950s—her journalism career, her father’s looming expectations, the buzz of opening day at the stadium, and the charismatic blonde boy she promised to love forever.
As Dara reads, she sees clearly the secrets her mother hid in plain sight, and her own that she thinks she hides so well. Though decades apart, she begins to realize there are parallels to be found in any era.
Thus, what began as a small favor becomes an opportunity to confront regrets, revisit buried sorrows, and ask whether it’s ever too late to step off a path already paved or to finally follow one’s heart.
For fans of women’s fiction, mother-daughter stories, and bittersweet, dual-timeline, second-chance romance.
A tale of ambition, love, and heartbreak.
Blair’s writing chronicles her life in the 1940s and 1950s—her journalism career, her father’s looming expectations, the buzz of opening day at the stadium, and the charismatic blonde boy she promised to love forever.
As Dara reads, she sees clearly the secrets her mother hid in plain sight, and her own that she thinks she hides so well. Though decades apart, she begins to realize there are parallels to be found in any era.
Thus, what began as a small favor becomes an opportunity to confront regrets, revisit buried sorrows, and ask whether it’s ever too late to step off a path already paved or to finally follow one’s heart.
For fans of women’s fiction, mother-daughter stories, and bittersweet, dual-timeline, second-chance romance.
275 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 11, 2025
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