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LETTERBOX LOVE STORIES: Volume I
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What if a life-changing letter arrived in today's mail? Now
imagine it leads to love and adventure! From the northern British Isles, across
the mainland of Europe, and on to Turkey, nine international romance writers
share spellbinding love stories told across time. And each begins with a
letter...
This collection includes contemporary and historical
romance, futuristic time travel romance, and romance touched by magic by
Award-winning and Multi-published Authors: Rose Anderson, Denyse Bridger, Lynn
Crain, Helena Fairfax, Gemma Juliana, Marie Laval, Cara Marsi, Lindsay
Townsend, and Jenny Twist.
ALL OR NOTHING:
Casino Coranthos is a
playground for wealthy, bored people, but for some, it’s also a place where
dreams and promises change lives forever. When a letter becomes part of an
unexpected inheritance for Ryann Thomson, her aunt’s past brings her face to
face with Ariston Katsaros, a man haunted by loss and driven by anger. As the
attraction between them sizzles and grows, can Ryann convince him she isn’t
looking to rob him or his father of anything, or will she become a casualty of
Ari’s vengeance? In this dangerous game of all or nothing, her heart is at
stake as well as her future happiness…
Excerpt:
The door to the adjoining sitting room
was open, and she could see Aunt Mel’s army trunk in the middle of the floor,
papers scattered around it. Her heartbeat picked up, the thudding loud in her
ears. Mel hadn’t opened that trunk in almost twenty-five years, not even when
Ryann begged to see the contents. Her aunt didn’t want to be reminded of those
last days in Vietnam, when Saigon fell and she’d barely made it out alive.
Ryann hadn’t understood, and no
amount of wheedling on her part had changed Aunt Mel’s stance. As an adult, she
understood. Mel didn’t want to go back to Vietnam, even in her mind.
“So what changed, Aunt Mel?” Her
words were soft, barely a whisper in the silence of the room.
She dropped to her knees next to
the open trunk and looked inside for the first time. She picked up the small
nurse’s cap, shaking fingers smoothing the crisp material, her heart in her
throat. The trunk was small, and it was far from filled. She set the cap aside,
lifted the uniform, and spotted a photo album. She settled more comfortably on
the floor and opened the book, looking at the photos with near reverence. Mel
and her fellow nurses, all smiles, she could almost imagine their laughter and
see the sparkle of adventure in their eyes. Further into the album, the smiles
vanished, the disillusionment was impossible to deny. When she reached the last
page, she noticed several photos had been removed.
She put the album back in the trunk
and stood, heading for her aunt’s favourite armchair, and the pile of paper
sitting on the table beside it. There were several books stacked neatly in the
opposite chair, but it was the letter on top of the polished table that caught
her attention. Guilt assailed her when she picked up the single sheet of heavy
paper. Shaking her head, she unfolded the page and read:
My dearest Melinda,
Twenty-five years have passed, some of them
so quickly I can hardly remember where they started or ended. What I do recall
is that each of them was less than it might have been if they’d been shared
with you. Our time has come, at last. I know you never married after we
returned from Saigon, and I can see you now, frowning as you consider how I
have such knowledge. Yes, I did keep tabs on you, but I never broke the promise
we made. I lived my life. My wife died many years ago. I wanted to contact you
then, but honoured your request that we not speak again until this year. I have
much to tell you, but all that seems important are the words I left you with
back in 1975, I love you.
Much has changed, my entire life in fact.
Enclosed are tickets for Greece, home to me now. I want you with me, to see the
turn of the millennium in six months, and to share whatever remains of our
lives.
Love, Luke
Sure enough, under the letter was
another envelope, and a brief look confirmed it was the airline ticket “Luke”
had referred to. Stunned, Ryann sat back in the chair and stared at the room,
seeing nothing. Aunt Mel had never mentioned anyone from Vietnam, yet she’d
been loved by this soldier, and apparently had loved him, too.
Her gaze went to the books in the
chair. Would she find answers between the covers of those books? She’d be
invading Aunt Mel’s most personal space. If she wanted to know, this was the
only way she’d find out more. Sighing, she reached for the first of the
journals Aunt Melinda had kept throughout her life. There was a reason she’d
been looking at these books…
Also includes: MORE THAN
WISHES by Rose Anderson, SEALED WITH A KISS by Lynn Crain, COME DATE ME IN
PARIS by Helena Fairfax, ABANDONED TREASURES by Gemma Juliana, SONS OF THE WIND
by Marie Laval, CURATING LOVE by Cara Marsi, PLAIN HARRY by Lindsay Townsend,
and THE MINSTREL BOY by Jenny Twist
LETTERBOX LOVE STORIES: Vol I
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