Still, I Love You | A Novel in Letters

Still, I Love You is a YA romantic drama novel told through letters, notebooks, and memory. Written in a quiet, emotionally precise style, it unfolds across dual timelines—1981 and the present day—through the discovery of thirty-one unfinished letters hidden in an attic. When sixteen-year-old Callie Strobe climbs into her late grandmother’s attic looking for sweaters, she finds a shoebox instead. On the lid, written in careful handwriting: For Mariah.And beneath it, smaller— P.S. I still love you. Inside are thirty-one letters written in 1981 by a boy named Paul Strobe to the girl Callie never truly knew: her grandmother. Mariah read some of them.Not all. Paul never stopped writing anyway. Forty years later, the letters are discovered by the wrong person—or maybe the exact right one. As Callie reads through the box, she becomes drawn into a love story preserved across decades of silence: a summer of swimming pools, front porches, long drives, and two teenagers learning how deeply another person can be seen. But the deeper she goes into the letters, the more she realizes the story never truly ended. Because Paul is still alive. Still living in Millhaven.Still in the grey house with the porch light.Still carrying questions nobody ever answered. What begins as curiosity slowly becomes something else: an inheritance of grief, memory, and attention passed quietly from one generation to another. And somewhere between the sealed envelope, the unfinished letters, and the things her family never said aloud, Callie begins to understand that love is not always measured by who stayed. Sometimes it is measured by who kept writing. Still, I Love You is a quiet coming-of-age novel about first love, invisible grief, and the strange way certain feelings survive long enough to find the person they were waiting for