Hardcover

From the book flap:

The Letter, the final book of the Christmas Box collection is, most simply stated, the love story of David and MaryAnne Parkin. But it is also everyone's love story, for it is about the storms that all relationships must face when the blissful state of romance vanishes into one of real-life challenges and difficulties. We often forget that it is in the hard times that we truly see what is best in love as well as in life. Though love may be temporarily darkened, true love never gives in, or up, but holds tight to noble ideas, which transcend this earth and all time.

The Letter is also about our pasts and our individual quests to discover who we are. In The Letter, David Parkin sets out on a journey to find his mother, a woman who abandoned him when he was a child. In truth, however, David is searching for himself as he seeks to free himself from the pain of her rejection and his fear that he was somehow unworthy of her love. In a sense, David's search is the same journey we are all pursuing. We are all seeking love.

My hope is that you will feel what I felt as I wrote this book -- the divine nature of loyalty and the understanding of why we must share love whenever and wherever.

One final note. I am saddened to finish the Christmas Box trilogy and to bid good-bye to the Parkin family. I do not know if I shall ever visit them again, but I am glad for this last story -- a story which I think is a fitting sendoff for the characters I've grown to love. I hope that the message you find in their lives is meaningful to your own. And, most of all, that in reading the Christmas Box collection, you, and those with whom you share my books, will never be the same.

With my love, Richard Paul Evans

This is the first book I've read by Richard Paul Evans and I liked it enough that I would probably read the 2 preceding books in this trilogy.

I saw this on a fellow BookCrosser's wish list, so it is on its way as a surprise . . . . Enjoy!

Wow! This was a suprise!!! Thank you so much. I read the other two books in a bookring so I really wanted to finish the conclusion. :) I think I'll offer it to the bookring participants when I finish. Thanks again ILuvToRead2 for your generosity.

Well, of the three books in this collection I liked The Christmas Box the best, this one second best and I couldn't handle the tragedy in Timepiece. :) The melodrama in this one annoyed me a bit too. I just hate it when characters don't talk to eachother! I didn't understand the attraction to Diedre at all. That part really bothered me. I did enjoy David's search for his mother but my favorite part by far was Lawrence's story. I cryed a lot in the "Sophia" chapter. All in all I am happy I got to read the last book in this series.

Released on Wednesday, November 03, 2004 at about 4:00:00 PM BX time (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada) at ABBCJan04 in Bookbox, Postal Release Controlled Releases.

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Since llama-mama205 had a bookring for the first two books in this trilogy, I thoght she may also want the third. So, I am sending it to her in the Already Been BookCrossed bookbox. Enjoy!!!

Came home in the Already Been BookCrossed bookbox. Looks like a good one. Thanks for thinking of me fizzfred!

This was a nice ending to the Christmas box collection. I enjoyed the story and it was easy to pick up even though I read the others a while ago. I agree with fizzfred, Lawrence's story was the most profound part. I will be sharing this with my son's girlfriend who also read the other two...and then who knows where it will end up?

Returned to me to share with others.

Into the ABBC bookbox it goes!

Found in the bookbox!

Found cute coffeehouse by my home for first time as well as finding bookcrossing for the first time. I will post again after reading this book.

CAUGHT IN CARY NC USA

nice quick read

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Gate A10 American Airlines waiting area