Dirty
Letters
Release
Date: 11/05/2019
A
Contemporary Romance Novel
New
York Times Bestselling Authors Vi Keeland & Penelope
Ward
EXCERPT
REVEAL:
The small dining room table had a pile of
mail. I’d had Dad’s mail forwarded to my house, so mostly it was
just catalogs and junk. Once a month, Mrs. Cascio sent me
everything that arrived, even though I’d told her it wasn’t
necessary. I mindlessly fingered through the pile, not expecting to
see anything worth keeping. But I stopped at an envelope addressed to
me—well, not me, but Luca Ryan. That was a name I hadn’t heard in
a long time. In second grade, my teacher, Mrs. Ryan, started a
pen pal writing program with a small town in England. We weren’t
allowed to use our real last names for safety reasons, so the entire
class used her last name—hence I was Luca Ryan. I checked out the
return address for the sender’s name.
G. Quinn
Wow, really? It couldn’t be.
I squinted at the postmark. It was from a
PO box in California, not England, but I didn’t know any other
Quinn other than Griffin. And the handwriting did look pretty
familiar. But it had been close to eight years since we’d exchanged
letters. Why would he write now? Curious, I ripped it open and
scanned right to the bottom of the letter for the name. Sure enough,
it was from Griffin. I started at the beginning.
Dear Luca,
Do you like scotch? I
remember you said you didn’t like the taste of beer. But we never
did get around to comparing our taste in hard liquor. Why is that,
you might ask? Let me remind you—because you stopped answering my
letters eight damn years ago. I wanted to let you know, I’m still
pissed off about that. My mum used to say I hold grudges. But I
prefer to think of it as I remember the facts. And the fact of the
matter is, you suck. There, I’ve said it. I’ve been holding that
shit in for a long time. Don’t get me wrong—I’m not obsessive
or anything. I don’t sit in my house thinking about you all day
long. In fact, there have been months that go by when thoughts of you
don’t even enter my brain. But then some random thing will pop into
my head out of the blue. Like I’ll see some kid in a pram eating
black licorice, and I’ll think of you. Side note—I’ve tried it
again as an adult, and I still think it tastes like the bottom of my
shoe, so perhaps it’s that you just have no taste. You probably
don’t even like scotch. Anyway, I’m sure this letter won’t find
its way to you. Or if by some miracle it does, you won’t answer.
But if you’re reading this, you should know two things.
1. The Macallan 1926 is
worth the extra cash. Goes down smooth.
2. You SUCK.
Later, traitor, Griffin
What in the hell?
I’d never
forgotten him—a man I’d yet to meet.
Griffin Quinn was
my childhood pen pal, the British boy who couldn’t have been more
different from me. Over the years, through hundreds of letters, we
became best friends, sharing our deepest, darkest secrets and forming
a connection I never thought could break.
Until one day it
did.
Then, out of the blue, a new letter arrived. A
scathing one—one with eight years of pent-up anger. I had no choice
but to finally come clean as to why I stopped writing.
Griffin
forgave me, and somehow we were able to rekindle our childhood
connection. Only now we were adults, and that connection had grown to
a spark. Our letters quickly went from fun to flirty to downright
dirty, revealing our wildest fantasies. So it only made sense that we
would take our relationship to the next level and see each other in
person.
Only Griff didn’t want to meet. He asked that I
trust him and said it was for the best. But I wanted more—more
Griff, in the flesh—so I took a big chance and went looking for
him. People have done crazier things for love.
But what I
found could change everything.
Vi Keeland is
a #1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street
Journal, and USA Today Bestselling author.
With millions of books sold, her titles have appeared in over
a hundred Bestseller lists and are currently translated in
twenty-five languages. She resides in New York with her husband and
their three children where she is living out her own happily ever
after with the boy she met at age six.
Penelope Ward is a
New York Times, USA Today and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling
author of contemporary romance.
She grew up in
Boston with five older brothers and spent most of her twenties as a
television news anchor. Penelope resides in Rhode Island with her
husband, son, and beautiful daughter with autism.
With over two
million books sold, she is a 21-time New York Times bestseller and
the author of over twenty novels. Her books have been translated into
over a dozen languages and can be found in bookstores around the
world.
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