Love Letters

Summer keeps Jo Marie Rose busy at the Rose Harbor Inn in Cedar Cove. She runs the place with handyman Mark Taylor, and she insists he is only a friend, though she thinks about him more than she admits. He refuses to talk about his past, and she wants to learn it. First she has to face her own, and three new guests are arriving.

Ellie Reynolds, twenty-three, has come to meet Tom, a man she has written to for months and may be falling in love with. Her overprotective mother disapproves of the trip. Maggie and Roy Porter are taking their first vacation alone since their children were born.

After earlier mistakes, the Porters want to rebuild trust and bring back the spark in their marriage. Maggie has one more confession to make, and it could end things between them. An old love letter from her husband reminds the couple what matters most.

Jo Marie's own story involves a letter from her husband Paul, who was killed in Afghanistan after going missing in action. Rereading it may give her the blessing she needs to imagine a new future. For Ellie, a letter connects her to the father she cannot remember.

Three stories of healing, forgiveness and compassion braid together at the inn, and the tone stays hopeful and tender throughout.