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The Letter Never Sent
Hardcover
Publisher Price: $29.99
ISBN13: 9781960249265
Publisher: Matt Jackson Books
Published: May 13 2026
Pages: 350
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some losses are never explained. Some words are never read.
Jan Lawyer was counting the days until Army helicopter pilot Barry Ridger came home from Vietnam. Their relationship was brief-but the letters they exchanged over the past year were deep, intimate, and full of promise. When Barry never arrives, Jan is left with silence. No goodbye. No explanation. No closure.
Unbeknownst to her, Barry did write one final letter-never finished, never sent-before flying one last mission.
Over the next fifteen years, that letter travels through many hands, carrying with it the weight of unfinished love, unanswered grief, and the unseen cost of war. As Jan builds a life shaped by absence, the unresolved loss leaves its mark not only on her, but on those closest to her.
The Letter Never Sent is a powerful novel about the psychological toll of missing answers, the quiet endurance of military families, and the way love can persist-even when words are lost. It is a tribute to the aviators who flew knowing recovery was unlikely, and to the families who waited years for truths that might never come.
A moving reminder that in vast wars, individual voices matter-and can disappear as suddenly as aircraft in the sky.
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