LETTING GO is a story of a friendship sabotaged by betrayal...two women trying to find their power in a world that keeps taking it all away. Becca Loses her mom in childhood, but with the help of her best friend Sarah she works through it, uncovering her healing gifts along the way, as well as a soft spot for Sarah's thoughtful, sensitive twin brother Rob. As Sarah studies abroad and Rob joins the military, Rebecca falls for a a chasing, brilliant law student Paul, also studying at NYU. Wen Sarah returns, their friendship is flung upside down, and her relationship with Paul becomes more and more controlling and abusive. Rebecca turns to her friend Tom, uncovers secrets in her mother's ancestors' past; and her first love, Rob, returns from Iraq...all while she discovers the lies that tore her and Sarah apart. "I loved the direction that this book goes... I enjoyed the rich exploration of relationships and loyalties woven throughout this story. The alternating POVs give the reader insights into multiple perspectives of emotional conflicts while maintaining distinctive voices. This is a strongly character-driven novel." -Writer's Digest Reviewer, 32nd annual Self-Published Book Awards "There's a romance that has its own life and kept me up reading until two in the morning to see how it turned out..." -Melissa Hale-Spenser, The Altamont Enterprise (Podcast) In her debut novel Letting Go, Jessica Barcomb's skill at revealing the hidden depths of her characters delivers the kind of pleasure one experiences when un-nesting a set of Russian Matryoshka dolls...Sarah and Becca, the central characters of Letting Go, do not merely "grow" as the novel progresses-they are revealed: to the reader, to each other, and to themselves. Barcomb's nuanced depiction of Sarah and Becca's joint and individual histories, rendered through closely observed incidents and engaging dialogue, make Letting Go a pleasure to read. And perhaps the greatest and most satisfying surprise of all is the novel's revelation not of the tiniest of dolls, but of an all-encompassing life force within which all of us are enclosed.- Gregory J. Wolos, author, Women of Consequence Jessica Barcomb has seen both sides of trauma, having survived a near-fatal accident, coma, and PTSD before becoming a craniosacral therapist to help others heal. A writing-intensive English major from Marquette University with her master's from Union College, she has been published in several professional publications, is a former secondary English teacher at Schenectady High, and has been a craniosacral therapist and owner of a wellness studio, Retreat & Renew, for the last twenty-plus years. She lives on a farm with her husband and three kids in upstate New York. Coincidentally, in researching this novel, Jessica, like her character Rebecca, discovered her own ancestral background in Salem from the 1600's, where her ancestors fled to Boston at the time of the witch trials.