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Letters to a Secret Lover

by Toni Blake



      The highly fashionable syndicated advice columnist Lindsey Brooks needs to escape Chicago after her very public and very humiliating breakup with her fiancé, so she flees to her great aunt’s former home in the small town of Moose Falls, Montana. Rugged carpenter Rob Colter needs to escape from a troubled past and settles in the most remote location he can find, completely ignorant of the fact that a certain pampered city girl will soon be headed his way. Readers also will enjoy escaping to Moose Falls, where romance, lust, deception, forgiveness, and adventure swirl around these unlikely lovers.

Whereas Lindsey lives her life like an open book, sharing her most intimate moments in her blog for all to see, Rob hides some serious secrets and therefore maintains his privacy by intentionally living a solitary life. Letters to a Secret Lover explores what happens when these two opposites attract: The talkative big-city girly girl and the quiet small-town manly man.

Author Toni Blake, however, creates three-dimensional characters that go beyond these stereotypical descriptions. These characters have significant problems, suffer injustices, resist change, make mistakes, and submit to their passions just like the real characters that inhabit our everyday lives. Lindsey and Rob may be idealized versions of our neighbors and friends, but their relationship feels real.

Letters to a Secret Lover fully develops the central characters and tells a carefully crafted story in a fun and frisky style that will keep you turning pages. The book doesn’t shy away from any details - emotions, actions, and sensations are fully explored in this highly engaging novel for daring readers of contemporary romance.

The Book

Avon Books / HarperCollins Publishers
May 27,2008
Mass Market Paperback
978-0-06-142988-0
Contemporary Romance
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Excerpt
NOTE: Sexually Explicit, Profanity

The Reviewer

Leslie Halpern
Reviewed 2008
NOTE: Reviewer Leslie Halpern is the author of Reel Romance. The Lovers' Guide to the 100 Best Date Movies and Dreams on Film. Coming Soon: A Writer's Guide to Fearless Interviews.
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