Letters to the Lost

On a frozen February night, Jess runs through the streets of London. She has left her abusive boyfriend and has nowhere to go, and a forgotten lane leads her to a small old house that is clearly unlived in. It offers shelter for the night.

The next morning a letter arrives for the house. Jess opens it and is soon pulled into the story of two lovers from another time.

That story begins in London in 1942, when Stella meets Dan, a US airman, by accident. The attraction between them is immediate. Dan pilots a B-17 bomber on missions into Europe from a British airbase, and his odds of surviving are one in five. With so little certain, the letters they write to each other are what they hold onto.

Fate separates them by decades and continents. In the present, Jess becomes determined to learn what happened to Stella and Dan. Her search may bring her an unexpected redemption of her own.

The book is a love story told across two eras, with wartime letters set against a contemporary search. It is emotional in tone, with a warm, romantic core and the weight of a threatened relationship in each timeline.