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Kensington
June 2011
On Sale: May 31, 2011
Featuring: Asa Coleman; Noelle Shepherd; Nate Shepherd
352 pages
ISBN: 0758246676
EAN: 9780758246677
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To Asa’s surprise, the days passed quickly...and even though
each day seemed to blend into all the rest, there was one
daily occurrence that gave him something to look forward to:
the delivery of mail. Taking two granite steps at a time
into the school post office, Asa would quickly scan the rows
of mail slots with small combination locks on their doors.
With a tightening in his chest, he would peer through the
tiny glass window to see if there were any envelopes leaning
up against the inside wall. Noelle had proven true to her
word and, after her first letter, Asa had forgiven her for
not meeting him that last night. She wrote often...two or
three times a week. Asa would slip her envelope into a book
and find a seat on the grass under the reaching boughs of an
old oak tree or at a worn secluded table by the window in
the library. There, with the sun casting light across the
pages, he would slowly read...running his fingers over the
pale stationary and thinking of the slender hands that had
touched it last...the hands that had touched
him...and given him such pleasure.
Noelle’s letters were warm and funny and spoke of life at
home and at work. She wrote about the changing weather and
the ocean and the stars. She wrote about Nate finding a
bottle of champagne by the pool... where in the world had
that come from??? And she always closed with thoughts of
him...she missed him...every part of him...her
thoughts stirred his fire and kept the embers burning. Asa
clung to her words and they sustained him...more than food
or drink or air...he lived for these...elegant lines linked
together to give him hope...