A story in letters, but oh, what gorgeous letters! Each one is a tiny work of art to be savored. (there are six more novels in this series - all beautiful).
Jonathan and Mina Harker just want a normal English life with their son Quincey, and to forget their ... ordeal ... in Transylvania. But something dark seems to be stirring in their marriage, and on the Continent.
Vacationing at the Beau Rivage Hotel, Anne-Lise idly rummages in the drawers of the bedside table and finds an abandoned manuscript with an address inside. She writes to the address and unearths a mystery.
When her mother warns her about the perils of a wartime romance, Margaret doesn't listen. But then a bomb uncovers a cache of letters, chronicling another wartime romance.
A young Jamaican-British woman in London makes a series of questionable decisions in the aftermath of a messy breakup before challenging herself to figure out who she wants to be.
Ava never understood her mother and became estranged from her as an adult. Then she receives her mother's ashes and a cache of letters and her mother's secret and painful past in brought to light.
Samantha is offered a scholarship of sorts. An anonymous benefactor will pay for graduate school - all she has to do is send him? her? them? regular progress letters.
Divorced and exiled from his home, Marcos begins getting letters at his new apartment from an anonymous and obviously troubled woman who is trying to reach the former tenant.
A disenchanted farmer's wife and a widowed museum curator begin a correspondence over their mutual fascination with poet Seamus Heaney's "The Tollund Man" and gradually share details from their lives, forging an unexpected bond along the way.
Bonus eBook titles:
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84, Charing Cross Roadby Helene Hanff - a charming classic love story detailing twenty years of correspondence between the New York City author and a London used-book dealer.
Address Unknown by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor is a slim, chilling little novel about two art dealers based in San Francisco. One returns to his home in Germany at the start of WWII, and their partnership dissolves because of distance ... and political differences.