Her Grandmothers Letters

Some letters wait a lifetime to be read. Some doors wait a lifetime to be opened.

When Nora Bellweather's grandmother dies at ninety-nine, her final words aren't goodbye, they're a warning about a locked desk in a Paris apartment no one in the family ever knew existed.

Sent to settle the estate, Nora finds a shuttered flat frozen in time, a rolltop writing desk, and twenty-seven love letters her grandmother wrote in 1926 and never sent to a man she never once mentioned in ninety-nine years of living.

Then Nora discovers what the letters can do.

At dusk, wearing her grandmother's garnet ring, she opens a door she never knew existed, and finds herself standing on a rain-slicked Montmartre street in 1926, face to face with Julien Bastien, a struggling painter who has no idea the woman he's falling for hasn't been born yet.

Nora is falling in love with the man her own grandmother loved first. And the deeper she crosses, the more she uncovers a truth her family was never meant to find, a forgery scheme, a murder, and a frame-up that stole an innocent man's name and shattered a woman's whole life. If Nora changes what happened, she may erase the very family that raised her. If she doesn't, she loses him, completely, and forever.

For readers who love Diana Gabaldon and Susanna Kearsley, Her Grandmother's Letters is a sweeping, atmospheric novel about the secrets our families bury, the letters we never send, and a love that doesn't need forever to have been real.

A vanished year. An impossible door. A love worth crossing a century for.