Love Letters #4

A young woman caught between two suitors—steady, reliable Gary Vernon and the captivating Ronald Marney—leaves her comfortable life in Gray City after Ronald sweeps her away with promises of love and a new beginning at his family's storied Louisiana plantation, Devil's Head. But when she arrives at the sprawling, decaying estate shrouded in bayou mist, Lorna finds herself questioning everything she's sacrificed, as the house itself seems to harbor secrets far darker than the romance that brought her there.

Julie Croyden discovered the hard way that passion on paper isn't the same as passion in person—when her fiancé Clark's gorgeous love letters from Paris turn out to have been written by a stranger for hire, she flees to New York to reinvent herself completely. Years later, working as a secretary in the publishing world, Julie encounters Ron Rankin, a charming new author who seems to recognize something in her, and suddenly the walls she's built around her heart begin to crack. As these two wounded souls find each other, they discover that sometimes the deepest connections come not from illusions, but from understanding what it means to have your dreams shattered.

Ginger Cotter has always been drawn back to Lucky Barrett, a smooth-talking operator working his way up through Marianna Street's underworld, no matter how many times she tries to break free—until the day Lucky moves on without her. Meeting Neil Kirk, a newspaper man with a better path in mind, Ginger reinvents herself as Virginia Baker and finds a new life away from her old ties, but the question of who she really is, and what she truly wants, lingers beneath her newfound happiness.

When war separates Margaret Dale from her fiancé Hal Prince, she pours her heart into letters across the miles—but the tender correspondence that sustains her through his disappearance and reported death may not be entirely what it seems. After Hal returns home, Margaret discovers that someone else wrote those passionate letters that kept her faith alive, and when that mysterious writer arrives, she must untangle her feelings between the man she promised to wait for and the words that saved her.