Excerpt from Letters to the Lost by Iona Grey, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

I guess that pretty soon none of this will matter, and our story will be history. But I'm not done hoping yet. Or wishing I could go back to the start and do it all again, and this time make sure I never let you go.

If you get this, please write.

My love

Dan

Oh.

Ohhhh …

She folded the letter in half again and shoved it hastily back into the envelope. She shouldn't have touched it; would never have done if she'd thought for a minute it would be so … serious. Life-and-death kind of serious. Personal and urgent.

But it was too late now. The letter had been torn open and couldn't be resealed. The plea sent out from across the world by a dying man had been heard, however inadvertently, by her and no one else. And so now she had a choice: to ignore it, or to make some attempt to find Mrs. S. Thorne. Whoever she might be.

Excerpted from Letters to the Lost by Iona Grey. Copyright © 2015 by Iona Grey. Excerpted by permission of Thomas Dunne Books. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.