Focused on a career in medicine and not on romance, Willa Duvall is thrown slightly off course during the summer of 1865 when she discovers a never-opened love letter in a crack of her old writing desk. Compelled to find the passionate soul who penned it and the person who never received it, she takes a job as a nurse at the seaside estate of Crestwicke Manor.
Everyone at Crestwicke has feelings–mostly negative ones–about the man who wrote the letter, but he seems to have disappeared. With plenty of enticing clues but few answers, Willa’s search becomes even more complicated when she misplaces the letter and it passes from person to person in the house, each finding a thrilling or disheartening message in its words.
Laced with mysteries large and small, this romantic Victorian-era tale of love lost, love deferred, and love found is sure to delight.
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Summary
From: Rebecca Maney
Book Title: The Love Note
Book Author: Joanna Politano
What do you like about this book:
"If I should happen to fall in love, the outcome of such a plight depends, like any big fall, on who is there to catch me."
Willa DuVall has no intention whatsoever of falling in love. Summarily dismissing her fourth suitor, she re-focuses on the future that she has chosen for herself, becoming a physician; not an easy aspiration for any young woman in the 1860's, and as you might imagine, Willa's father had an altogether different plan. Who would have thought that an unopened love note, discovered deep within the recesses of Willa's antique desk might provide an opportunity to please them both. Oh, the mighty power of words.
Travelling to the familiar Crestwicke Manor estate as a private nurse for the Gresham matriarch, Willa is re-introduced to members of the family with whom she played as a child, happily accompanying her father on his visits to the grand property as the family's physician. With the mysterious love note tucked unobtrusively into her pocket, Willa is determined to use the only clue it bore of its intended recipient. Instead, she loses it . . . . . .and is forced to watch the missive circulate amongst members of the Gresham family and their staff, causing a havoc that Willa could only pray would not ruin what she had hoped to restore.
Utterly enchanting would describe this romantic venture! Readers will find themselves urging each and every member of the Gresham family to rediscover that, "Matched souls always find their way back to one another, for they seek refuge in the same place."
I received a copy of this book from the author and publisher. The opinions stated above are entirely my own.