LETTERS FROM STRANGERS by Susan Walter - Spotlight

 

When her father dies suddenly, Jane thinks it’s the worst thing that could ever happen to her. And then she finds the letters – nine years’ worth of “I love you’s” from a woman who isn’t her mother. The letters make her cry. And then they make her angry. Because in them is talk of a baby, and if Jane has a half-sibling, she wants to know. So she boards a flight from LA to Boston to find her father’s mistress and the teenage child she suspects they had together.

 

In a suburb of Boston, sixteen-year-old Adam Ross dreams of playing college football. But he’s got to get his weight under control first. Because he wants to be a wide receiver and wideouts are lean and fast. But he just can’t stop eating.

 

Adam’s mother never wanted to show him the letters from his birth mother, but Adam is self-destructing and wants answers, even if they hurt. And so she gives her son the box full of “I’m sorry’s” from the woman who birthed then abandoned him – which only fuel his hunger for answers about why she gave him up.

 

Jane and Adam are on a collision course – but not for the reasons we might suspect. Because the letters do not tell the whole story. And maybe Jane and Adam are lying about some things, too? What is true, is that Adam and Jane are both looking for a woman who doesn’t want to be found.

 

A love story wrapped in a mystery, “Letters from Strangers” is a novel about the healing power of acceptance told from three points of view – a troubled teenage boy, a woman desperate to know her father’s secret, and the other woman, who forces Jane to confront some secrets of her own.

The winner of the (not terribly) prestigious WIFTS screenwriting award for “All I Wish,” the film she wrote and directed starring Sharon Stone, Susan Walter is excited to add “novelist” to an eclectic resume that includes “failed concert violinist,” “unwatchable TV news reporter,” and “dazed mother to two teenage girls.” 

A native of Boston, she suppresses her irresistible accent to avoid stink eye from sports fans across Los Angeles, where she now resides. She has an AB in government from Harvard, which she has so far failed to put to good use, and enjoys skiing, lazy bike rides, and wicked strong coffee.

Susan’s first two novels, “Good as Dead” and “Over Her Dead Body,” were Amazon First Reads editors’ picks. “Lie by the Pool,” a novel of suspense about a woman who witnesses a murder while stowed away in a Beverly Hills pool house, was published on 9/12/23. All three of Susan's books hit number one on Audible across all categories.

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