Georgia Stanton is a protagonist, point-of-view character, and the female lead of the contemporary romance story in The Things We Leave Unfinished. She is 28 and recently divorced from Damian Ellsworth, a movie director. Georgia is strikingly beautiful with long black hair and blue eyes she inherited from her great-grandmother.

Georgia felt abandoned by her mother, Ava, who gave birth to Georgia in high school. Georgia never knew her father and was raised by Gran, her great-grandmother, in their small town of Poplar Grove, Colorado. Gran passes a year before the story opens, and Georgia still mourns her, which is part of why she is protective of Gran’s last manuscript and real-life love story when Noah enters the picture. Georgia feels guilty that her marriage to Damian wasn’t the kind of devoted love described in the family stories of Scarlett and Jameson Stanton, so she hid that she was unhappy. Losing Gran and divorcing Damian has left Georgia brittle, broken-hearted, and reluctant to trust anyone.

This lack of trust proves the chief obstacle to falling in love, and the wound that Georgia must heal before she can commit to a relationship with Noah. When he wins her trust, it transforms her, and she is able to enjoy a romantic passion the likes of which she had never known.