cover image Love Letters for Other People

Love Letters for Other People

Shaylin Gandhi. Canary Street, $18.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-335-01696-6

Old wounds reopen and old feelings resurface when a woman returns to her hometown in this stunning small-town sizzler from Gandhi (When We Had Forever). After mathematician Aubrey MacLean unfairly loses her job in New York, she heads back to Henderson, Ind., to figure out her next move. There, she’s reunited with both Nick Thacker, the boy who broke her heart 17 years prior, and Gallant Nobel, Nick’s high school nemesis. Gallant asks Aubrey out and proceeds to woo her by sending her heartfelt love letters that make her swoon. Unbeknownst to her, however, Gallant has been buying the letters from Nick’s online love letter–writing business, a side hustle to his job at the local steel mill. Even before this is revealed, Gallant’s letters remind Aubrey of the notes Nick used to write for her in high school, bringing back old feelings. These feelings deepen when both Aubrey and Nick volunteer for the town’s fall festival, allowing them the chance to get to know each other as adults and leaving Aubrey torn between two men. Animated by juicy secrets and intense sexual and emotional tension, this second-chance romance delivers big feelings. It’s one readers are sure to remember. (Dec.)