The Trouble With Letting Go : A Christian Romantic Comedy (The Murphy Girls Book 5)

She has spent her life keeping everything. Maybe love is asking her to let go.

Claire Davenport pays for three storage units and cannot tell you what is in any of them.

She keeps a lamp with no cord because the cord is somewhere. She keeps both skates. She keeps a sweatshirt she has a prepared speech about. Her friends have all married, the percolator is four for four, and Claire is the last unpaired Murphy Girl—which everybody agrees was always going to be a long shot, including Claire.

So when everyone starts telling her to do something about it, Claire calls Open Hands.

Mostly to get them off her back.

Nate Beckett owns fourteen things and can name them in order. He is unhurried, unbothered, and the first person who has ever stood in front of Claire’s boxes without telling her what any of it says about her.

He simply opens his hands.

And waits.

It is the most infuriating thing anyone has ever done to her.

Then Claire realizes her storage units aren’t just full of things.

Unit A-14 holds college and family. Unit B-22 holds the one thing nobody talks about.

And Unit C-09 holds one box labeled in a friend’s handwriting:

DO NOT OPEN.

Claire has spent five years paying rent on a grudge she cannot lift and a house on Wren Hollow she will not let herself want.

Nate has a coast job waiting and a drawer he has never mentioned to anyone.

Some things are worth keeping.

Some things have been keeping Claire.

And now she has to decide whether she can finally open her hands before the one thing worth holding walks out of them.

The Trouble With Letting Go is a Christian romantic comedy and the fifth book in The Murphy Girls series—clean and Christ-centered, with a happily-ever-after and no cliffhanger.