Letting Go: Sometimes the Truth is the Only Way Home (Jackson's Bridge Series Book 1)

Letting Go is the first book in the Jackson's Bridge Series. The novel was selected as a Top 100 finalist in the BATH NOVEL AWARD 2024. Callie Winters, a pharmaceutical chemist, has spent seventeen years building a stable life for her son in San Francisco while keeping their traumatic past hidden. When corporate changes force her to relocate to Jackson's Bridge, a remote mountain town in Colorado, her carefully controlled world begins to fall apart. Callie is sent to convince a local botanical cooperative to license their new product. She becomes immersed in the community's life and develops a connection with Dave Woods, who runs a family herb farm. As she finds herself drawn to this new place and its possibilities, her son discovers old letters revealing the truth about his father's death and the people responsible for their family's separation. Faced with her son learning these secrets, Callie must decide whether to protect the life she has built or take the risk of starting fresh. The story explores themes of family, secrets, community, and new beginnings set against Colorado's mountain landscape and small-town setting.