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The Letters My Mother Never Sent: A Heartbreaking Family Drama About Twenty-Seven Unsent Letters, a Lost Daughter, and a Love That Never Truly Ended
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Twenty-seven letters.
One name Claire has never heard.
And a secret her mother carried to the grave.
After her mother's funeral, Claire Bennett returns to her childhood home expecting nothing more than the painful task of packing away a lifetime of memories.
Then she finds the cedar box.
Hidden beneath the attic floorboards are twenty-seven sealed letters, all written by her mother, Evelyn.
All addressed to the same man.
Thomas Hale.
Claire has never heard his name.
Her father claims he hasn't either.
But the moment she asks about Thomas, Claire knows he is lying.
The first letter takes her back nearly thirty years-to a summer at Lake Marrow, a young woman desperately in love, and a promise made beneath an old railway bridge.
The next letters reveal something far more devastating.
Before Claire was born, her mother had another daughter.
A baby girl she gave away.
A daughter nobody in Claire's family ever mentioned.
And Thomas may have been her father.
Determined to understand the woman she thought she knew, Claire follows the letters back to Lake Marrow and finds Thomas still alive.
He has spent decades believing Evelyn chose another man and never wanted to hear from him again.
Then Claire places the twenty-seven letters on his table.
He never received a single one.
As Claire searches for the sister she never knew existed, the story of her parents begins to unravel.
A private adoption.
A love that never completely disappeared.
A husband who knew more than he admitted.
A daughter who may not want to be found.
And a mother who spent decades writing the truth...
but never had the courage to send it.
Then Claire discovers one final envelope.
Unlike all the others, it isn't addressed to Thomas.
On the front, in her mother's handwriting, are three words:
To My Daughters.
Now two women connected by blood but separated by an entire lifetime must decide whether to open it together.
Because some letters arrive too late to change the past.
But they can still change everything that comes after.
The Letters My Mother Never Sent is an emotional family drama about motherhood, adoption, first love, marriage, regret, forgiveness, and the secrets families keep in the name of protecting the people they love.
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