From the reserved yet honourable Michael struggling to cope with the guilt of his actions, to the wicked and scarily evil Leo, Sandra has developed two male characters that, whilst representing the diametrically polar opposites common in period romances, are yet realistic and rounded within their world. Sandra Owens’ excellent use of description and characterisation really breathes life into the characters and settings in this book. He should prostrate himself at her feet and beg forgiveness. Between the two of them, he and Leo had destroyed a beautiful woman. Rage burned deep in his gut, souring his stomach. Her hands, red and raw, the nails broken, were clenched tightly.
He deserved her formality, but there had been a time when she had whispered his name while speaking words of love. These revelations force Michael to go in search of Diana and his long-lost child, and he embarks on a journey to restore her faith in love. Leo cruelly boasts that at his hands Diana is now afraid of any man’s touch and that her son is in fact Michael’s. A year after Leo’s death, Michael receives a letter from Leo explaining his hideous deeds and the fact that he has left Diana destitute. The night before their wedding, Leo publically fakes an intimate moment with Diana, disgracing her so that she is forced to marry him instead of Michael, leading to eleven years of psychological and physical abuse for Diana at the hands of her callous husband.
The Letter is a period drama which tells the tragic story of two lovers, Diana and Michael, who are torn apart by the deceit of Michael’s evil and jealous cousin Leo. When the two lovers are brought back together by a letter from Leo a year after his death, Michael and Diana must struggle through all the lies and secrets before they can find a love that far surpasses the one of their youth. All she knows is she was forced to marry Michael’s cousin, Leo, and then spent the next eleven years in hell.
Diana, the daughter of a marquess, remembers nothing of that night. On the eve of their wedding, Michael Jeffres, Earl of Daventry, found his betrothed, the woman who meant as much to him as the air he breathed, in bed with his cousin. Even so, it still tore two lovers apart for eleven years.
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