The Letters

The Letters

<i>Is there any mystery greater than those we love the most? <br><br></i>In this remarkable collaboration, <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author Luanne Rice and Joseph Monninger combine their unique talents to create a powerfully moving novel of an estranged husband and wife through a series of searching, intimate letters. By way of a correspondence so achingly real you€ll forget it€s fiction, they trace the history of a love affair and of a family before, and after, the moment that changed the course of two people€s journey forever. <br><br>Sam and Hadley West are both trying in their own ways to survive after the unthinkable loss of their only son in Alaska. For Sam, a sports journalist, acceptance means an arduous trek by dogsled across the bleak and beautiful arctic wilderness to find the place where Paul died. For Hadley, it means renting a benignly haunted, salt-soaked cottage off the Maine coast where she begins to paint again. <br><br>Now, at opposite ends of the country, waiting for their divorce to be finalized, they begin to exchange letters by post, missives filled with longing and truths they€ve never before voiced, as they recall their marriage€"its magic moments and its challenges€"and begin to rediscover the reasons they fell in love in the first place. <br><br>As Sam risks his life to reach the remote crash site, Hadley begins an equally hazardous inner journey to a rendezvous with the mad grief of a mother€s heart. At the place where all else is lost, they will meet again€¦.