Seven Letters
A Novel
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
J. P. Monninger, author of the international bestseller The Map That Leads to You, the novel Nicholas Sparks called “romantic and unforgettable", tells a poignant love story of the ways the world divides two souls—and the way that love brings them together.
Kate Moreton is in Ireland on sabbatical from her teaching position at Dartmouth College when she meets Ozzie Ferriter, a fisherman and a veteran of the American war in Afghanistan. The Ferriter family history dates back centuries on the remote Blasket Islands, and Ozzie – a dual citizen of Ireland and the United States – has retreated to the one place that might offer him peace from a war he cannot seem to leave behind.
Beside the sea, with Ireland’s beauty as a backdrop, the two fall deeply in love and attempt to live on an island of their own making, away from the pressures of the outside world. Ireland writes its own love stories, the legends claim, and the limits of Kate and Ozzie’s love and faith in each other will be tested. When his demons lead Ozzie to become reckless with his life—and Kate’s—she flees for America rather than watch the man she loves self-destruct. But soon a letter arrives informing Kate that her heroic husband has been lost at sea, and Kate must decide whether it is an act of love to follow him or an act of mercy to forget.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Monninger (The Map That Leads To You) enchants with this lyrically written romantic love letter to Ireland and its people. Dartmouth graduate student Kate Moreton travels to Ireland to spend the spring semester working on her dissertation about the remote, windswept, and uninhabited Blasket Islands, where her late father was born. Soon after arriving, Kate meets a lovely older woman named Nora Crean, who introduces Kate to her half-Irish, half-American fisherman grandson, Ozzie Ferriter, who is still brooding from his U.S. Navy service in Afghanistan. Gorgeous and troubled, Ozzie doesn't immediately seem like a love match to Kate, who wants to focus on her studies, but fate has other ideas in mind. As they begin to build a life together, tragedy strikes and leaves Kate unsure of where to turn next. The author clearly did her research on the Blasket Islands and Irish geography and creates achingly imperfect and relatable characters who will steal readers' hearts. While the ending is slightly implausible, it doesn't detract from the overall quality of the story. Readers who appreciate love stories set against dramatic backdrops will find much to love.
