Ellie Winters has never given up hope that her Navy SEAL -- MIA -- might one day come home. While the rest of the world seems to have forgotten him, forever she will wait for her soldier, Flynn Traeborn, to return. Until Max McDonough walks into her life.
Max and Flynn spent 15 horrifying years together as POWs, and it was only Flynn's love and memories of Ellie that helped keep them both alive. Now that only one of them has made it all the way back home, can Ellie make a future with a man who remembers loving her, even if he's not the man she once loved?
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Letters to Ellie was originally published in the SEAL Of My Dreams charity anthology. The anthology was written by a group of bestselling authors and all proceeds from sales of the book go to the Veterans Research Corporation, a non-profit fundraiser for veterans' medical research. Letters to Ellie is 8,553 words.
Loreth Anne White is an Amazon Charts, Washington Post and Bild bestselling author of thrillers, mysteries, and suspense.
With over 4 million books sold around the world in more than 20 languages, she is a Canadian Crime Writer winner, ITW Thriller Awards nominee, a three-time RITA finalist, an overall Daphne du Maurier Award winner, Arthur Ellis finalist, and winner of multiple other industry awards.
A recovering journalist who has worked in both South Africa and Canada, she now resides in the Pacific Northwest, dividing time between Vancouver Island, a ski resort in the Coast Mountains, and a rustic lakeside cabin in the Cariboo.
When she’s not writing or dreaming up plots, you will find her on the lakes, in the ocean, or on the trails where she tries—unsuccessfully—to avoid bears.
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Heart wrenchingly beautiful. Kinda don't have words for the depth and the feels and the beauty contained in just a few short words. I loved it just the way it is, and also kinda would love to have a little longer of a story for them, flesh out more of their lives now that Max is back. But I can use my imagination and give them lots of goodness.
Fifteen years ago, Ellie’s fiancé disappeared, declared MIA. Now Max McDonough, the man who was captured with Flynn, has brought a box of letters essentially dictated by Flynn during the long nights they were captive.
Tough one. I have to wonder if the love, the attraction is real. Max only knows the idealized Ellie of Flynn’s memories. Is Ellie connecting with Max? Or a substitute for Flynn? That is something that a longer story would have to address. 3 out of 5.