Sometimes your life is split by a single decision.
I’ve spent every day of the last seven years regretting mine: he left, and I didn’t follow. A thousand letters went unanswered, my words like petals in the wind, spinning away into nothing, taking me with them.
But now he’s back.
I barely recognize the man he’s become, but I can still see a glimmer of the boy who asked me to be his forever, the boy I walked away from when I was young and afraid.
Maybe if he’d come home under better circumstances, he could speak to me without anger in his voice. Maybe if I’d said yes all those years ago, he’d look at me without the weight of rejection in his eyes. Maybe if things were different, we would have had a chance.
One regretted decision sent him away. One painful journey brought him back to me. I only wish I could keep him.
*A contemporary romance inspired by Jane Austen’s Persuasion*
Review
WOW! Staci Hart wrote a book that tore me apart and made the tears pour from my face. Deeply emotional and poetically written A Thousand Letters takes you on a journey with two people who have hurt each other so too much and have to learn to move past the pain in order for them to have a future.
Elliot and Wade walked away from each other years ago but the pain of their parting has never healed. Now years later when Wade’s dad who is Elliot’s mentor gets fatally sick with cancer they must come together to say goodbye. But true love never just goes away and those feelings are mixed in deep with all the pain and hate creating a tense but enticing atmosphere.
Staci’s writing show tremendous growth and her words are powerful in this second chance romance. My heart ached at times but in the best possible way. I yearned for more and hope she tries this style of writing that is deeply rooted in emotion once again.
