For twelve years host Chris Harrison has been the face of
ABC’s massive reality hits The Bachelor and The
Bachelorette. For 27 seasons (and counting!) he’s been
at every rose ceremony, every hometown date, and every
dramatic mountaintop proposal guiding eager contestants, and
millions of hopeful viewers, through some of the most
passionate, heartbreaking, and deeply romantic moments in
television history. The beloved constant in a franchise that
stars a new face each season, Chris Harrison is The
Bachelor, and over the course of more than a decade on
the job he’s learned a thing or two about love.
Now in his first novel, THE PERFECT LETTER, Chris
Harrison turns his talents from counseling young lovers on
their journey to “happily ever after” to writing about the
exhilarating experience of risking it all in the name of love.
Leigh Merrill had spent ten years running away from her
past. A talented young book editor on the fast track at a
major publishing house, Leigh had been determined to build a
life for herself in New York City—a life far from the
hay-filled barns, swimming holes, and rolling hills of her
grandfather's horse farm in Texas. And for the most part,
she'd succeeded. This new life, one filled with books and
parties and romance, was everything she'd dreamt of as a
girl. Complete. Happy even, if Leigh considered the future
she was building with Joseph, a brilliant, generous man who
adored the very ground she walked on. Still, when the
invitation arrived asking her to be the keynote speaker at
the Austin Writer's Conference, Leigh couldn't ignore the
nagging feeling that Texas, with all of its tangled secrets,
was calling her home.
Out of reasons to say no to a free trip, Leigh sees the
conference as a perfectly timed escape—just a few days away
to catch up with old friends, meet a few potential authors,
and clear her mind. But Leigh's plans for a quiet retreat
quickly dissolve when a stack of deeply personal letters
from the past are left in her hotel room. After all these
years of running, Leigh has nowhere to hide. In her hands
she holds the letters that bare her soul and her secrets,
the letters she wrote to one man, the love of her life—Jake.
With her past and present crashing in around her, Leigh must
decide just how much she's willing to risk for love.