Letters to Home By: Heather Lynn

Book 1 of 2: The Long Way Home Series

For seventeen-year-old Harper Quinn, silence has always been safer than truth. Locked inside a juvenile facility for something she did not say, with no family waiting beyond concrete walls, she spends her nights counting cracks in the ceiling and pretending she does not miss the world she has been cut off from.

Required to participate in a soldier pen-pal program as part of a mandatory community initiative, Harper expects nothing more than another obligation, another box to check in a life already dictated by survival.

So she writes.

One letter. Scrawled in her left hand. Addressed to a stranger who might never answer.

Private Ryan Calloway is not the hero type. He never planned to serve; a string of bad choices made by someone he trusted landed him in a different kind of uniform. Now stationed halfway across the world, he counts days and regrets until Harper's letter lands in his hands. He does not know what she looks like, or even if she will write back, but her words become the one quiet place that feels like home.

Through months of ink and unguarded honesty, two strangers form a fragile connection neither of them can explain. But as Harper's release date draws closer, Ryan learns she has nowhere to go, and though he is half a world away, something in him already knows he is going to find her.

Letters to Home is a powerful, emotional romance about connection born in darkness, learning to be seen when you have been taught to stay silent, and discovering that sometimes home is not a place, it is a person.