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The Last Letter

Pages
432
Published
2019
Language
English

Synopsis

When Beckett Gentry receives a letter from his Army buddy's sister, he has no idea it will change his life. Ella MacKenzie is a single mother raising twins, Maisie and Colt, while running Solitude, the mountain resort her family owns in Telluride, Colorado. Beckett, known to her only by his call sign — Chaos — becomes her lifeline through letters, a stranger she can tell anything. Then her brother Ryan is killed in action, and Beckett travels to Telluride to honor his friend's final request: to look after Ella and the children.

As Beckett falls for Ella and grows close to her kids, one truth stands between them — that he is the man behind the letters, and that he was there when Ryan died. Complicating everything, Maisie is fighting a life-threatening illness, and the family's fragile hope rests on treatment they may not be able to reach.

Told partly through the letters that first bound them together, The Last Letter is an emotional military romance about grief and second chances, about the courage it takes to love people who might be taken from you, and about a promise that becomes the beginning of a family.

About the author

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Rebecca Yarros

Rebecca Yarros is an American novelist, born 13 April 1981 in Washington, D.C. She grew up in a military family — both of her parents served as lieutenant colonels in the U.S. Army — and studied history and English at Troy University, graduating in 2008. She began writing while her husband was deployed to Afghanistan. She is best known for the Empyrean series, which opened with Fourth Wing (Red Tower Books, 2023) and continued with Iron Flame and Onyx Storm; the series is being adapted for tele...

Characters

Ella MacKenzieProtagonist

A widowed single mother raising twins and running her family's Colorado resort.

Beckett GentryProtagonist

A Special Forces soldier who begins writing to Ella under the call sign Chaos and keeps a promise to her late brother.

Ryan MacKenzieSupporting

Ella's brother and Beckett's Army friend, whose death sets the story in motion.

MaisieSupporting

One of Ella's twins, who is fighting a serious illness.

ColtSupporting

Maisie's twin brother, Ella's son.

All characters in The Last Letter
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