COMING 2026
Always Have Been
a novel by Jo Lee
For years, Mila Ricci survived by becoming whoever life needed her to be.
A daughter. A mother. A woman trying to figure out who she is outside of surviving.
But somewhere between old heartbreaks and unfinished love, she has to ask herself one impossible question:
Who is she when she finally stops running?
A sweeping contemporary romance about grief, family, identity, and finding your way back to yourself.
a taste of the story
“
Maybe home was never a place.
Maybe it was the people who saw every broken version of you and stayed anyway.
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Sound like your kind of story? Read the first 3 chapters — free
Before the unfinished love.
Before the past catches up to her.
Before she finds her way back to herself.
about Jo Lee
Jo Lee writes contemporary romance about love, grief, healing, and the complicated ways people find their way back to themselves — and each other.
Debut novel Always Have Been coming in 2026!
contact: jo@joleestories.com
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