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Also by Barbara O'Neal:

A Thousand Painted Hours, August 2026
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The Last Letter of Rachel Ellsworth, July 2025
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Memories of the Lost, July 2024
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The Scent of Hours, June 2024
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Lady Luck's Map of Vegas, June 2024
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The Goddesses of Kitchen Avenue, May 2024
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In the Midnight Rain, May 2024
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No Place Like Home, April 2024
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A Piece of Heaven, April 2024
Trade Paperback / e-Book
The Starfish Sisters, September 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
Write My Name Across the Sky, August 2021
Trade Size / e-Book / audiobook
When We Believed in Mermaids, July 2019
Paperback / e-Book
The All You Can Dream Buffet, March 2014
Paperback / e-Book
How To Bake A Perfect Life, January 2011
Trade Size
The Secret of Everything, January 2010
Paperback
The Lost Recipe For Happiness, January 2009
Trade Size

THE LAST LETTER OF RACHEL ELLSWORTH
By: Barbara O'Neal

Lake Union Publishing
July 2025
On Sale: July 29, 2025
395 pages
ISBN: 166251493X
EAN: 9781662514937
Kindle: B0DNRHSPY6
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Women's Fiction | Mystery

Two women overcoming past traumas embark on a healing journey across continents in a novel about friendship, family, and rediscovery by the USA Today bestselling author of When We Believed in Mermaids.

Recently and abruptly divorced Veronica Barrington is anxious for a new direction when she answers a listing for a travel companion. It’s from Mariah Ellsworth, a young woman adjusting to an injury that ended her Olympic career. She’s also grieving her mother, Rachel, a lauded food writer, and Mariah aims to trace the steps of her mother’s final, unfinished project so she can heal and also honor the woman she misses.

Veronica seizes on the opportunity to experience with Mariah the culture, traditions, and intoxicating aromas of Parsi cafés throughout London, Paris, Morocco, and India. Accompanied by a former war photographer who has a wounded history of his own, and with just Rachel’s letters to guide them, the quest is a chance to not only close a chapter in life but also begin a new one.

Following the letters one by one—each a clue to an illuminating mystery—Veronica and Mariah must face the painful and beautiful challenges of freeing themselves from the dark shadows of the past. Together, far from home, they can find the light.