Letters from the Heart
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4.4 • 11 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Peggy
After the death of my husband, I drowned myself in flowers, a bittersweet memory of the good times we'd shared. I'd had the good fortune to fall in love with a man who wasn't great with words but understood the language of flowers. There had been flowers for every occasion, which culminated into the biggest flower delivery of all, my own shop in the small town of Willow Valley, Peggy's Petals. So I spent all my time and energy building my small flower shop.
Eight years later, my friends are trying to encourage me to move on, but how does a person do that and leave behind the guilt they hold? Instead, I tried something safer. My best friend, Trinity, suggested I join the Army pen pal program. It seemed the safest way to test out the waters with someone new, and the best part, we'd never meet, or so I thought.
Ethan
I'd now been widowed longer than I'd been married and thanks to countless deployments, I knew the men under my command better than I knew my own daughter. As I neared retirement, I wanted to change that. I started talking to my daughter. She explained that she had been doing some volunteer work for a non – profit. She was starting a pen pal program for military men and women and she wanted me to get involved.
Apparently, all I needed to do was write a pen pal provided by the non-profit. So, I signed up, and began exchanging letters. This went on for a few months. The more I knew about her, the more I wanted to know. Then kismet played its hand. Melinda, my daughter, and Peggy, my pen pal lived in the same small town.
As I prepared for retirement, I finally knew where I wanted to settle down. The military had given mean amazing life, now I wanted the job of being a family man, which meant being with my family. I planned to move to Willow Valley, build a relationship with my daughter, and if I had my way, build one with Peggy too.
Customer Reviews
Letters from the Heart
Love this series as they involve mature couple with some past experience that could have implications on the future relationships and mental wellbeing.
Very well written, engaging story.
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Letters from the Heart
This is a very heartwarming and emotional story that overwhelmed me and made it a captivating read from the very first line. This author’s writing is strong and every emotion she’s conveying is strongly felt. This story deals with deep grief, sorrow and mostly guilt that both main characters feel. Peggy and Ethan are both widowers filled with pain and guilt from losing their respective partners that they blame themselves for. Ethan being a military man and for not being present when his wife was diagnosed with cancer, her treatments and her eventual death has eaten him up for fifteen years and prevented him from moving on. And Peggy on the last day she saw her husband alive eight years ago had reacted negatively to a present her husband gave her for her birthday…said things she didn’t mean and stormed away without ever having the opportunity to apologize to him has filled her with guilt that had her unable to move on or open her heart to loving again. Until she accepts to be part of a military program that allows her to communicate in writing with an unknown person, a soldier who’ll unknowingly will change her life and together they’ll learn to heal each other of their grief and guilt and love again. A very recommended reading ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️❤️!
Marvelous story
Peggy and Ethan's story is one of the most heartwarming, touching story I have read this year. Both of them lost their spouses in different circumstances but could not make their peace with it. Peggy is encouraged by her friends to move on and joins the military pen pal program. Ethan is divorced and retiring looking for some peace after being in the military his whole life and wants to connect with his daughter Melinda at the same time. Melinda wants he father to be involved in the pen pal program and becomes Peggy's who lives in Melinda's town. Their story is one of trust, drama, guilt and letting go of a painful past and heal together. A marvelous story and characters.