Love and Conductivity

"A heartfelt and heartwarming love story!" -Jessica Brockmole, internationally bestselling author of Letters from Skye 

"...its conclusion left me teary-eyed and tingling with the best kind of goosebumps." -Erin Lindsay McCabe, USA Today bestselling author of I Shall Be Near To You

1918: At the Brandenburg Boarding House in Norman, Oklahoma, Eleanor Morgan says goodnight to a photograph of a man she has never met. Then the telegram comes: Thomas Erwin Phipps, chemist, dead of influenza at Camp Jackson. The newspaper prints his obituary. The newspaper is wrong. 

Home from the war, Erwin stops in Norman for six hours and sprinkles driftwood powder on the hearth fire, making it blaze green, violet and blue. Eleanor is enchanted. She is bent on adventure at the expense of romance, but he is the first man she can talk with freely. 

Erwin leaves for Berkeley and his sodium-in-ammonia experiments, and Eleanor returns to North Carolina, where her father has picked out a diplomat for her and rents out her room when she refuses.

All that is left is the mail. Two letters are on their way: one offering a faraway teaching post, and one from Erwin. Eleanor has decided that whichever arrives first decides her life.

Told in rich detail, this enchanting story, inspired by a real, early 20th-century correspondence, is about longing, lightning, and life's most unexpected journeys. Perfect for fans of Lessons in Chemistry and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.