Sherrie Hansen
Romance
978-1935171287
328 pages
About
It's midnight in Minnesota and Jensen Marie Christiansen is dreaming of a rosy future. It's daybreak in Denmark and Anders Westerlund is waking up to a world full of stark realities. When parchment paper and faded ink meet computer screens and fax machines, the old-fashioned magic of a great-grandmother's letters sets the stage for a steamy Internet romance... and the unraveling of a hundred year-old mystery. Night & Day... Will fantasy become reality, or will oceans and time keep a second pair of lovers apart?.
Excerpt
“That's what I was trying to say earlier." Jensen struggled to maintain her composure. "Peder has the home place and Tara and half of the Italians in Philadelphia. Karl has Melody and her whole family. They’ll both have kids. Grandkids after that.”
Her hands shook as she pulled the car to the shoulder. “You guys, Peder and Karl, and that old house are all I have.”
“And you always will.” Her mother’s voice was stronger now, the matriarch once more.
“Not if Peder keeps having bonfires,” Jensen said.
She could hear her mother’s sharp intake of breath. “I rescued as much as I could. But who knows about next time?” She looked at the soot-stained letters on the seat beside her. “I found some old letters from Grandma that are written in Danish.”
“He was going to throw out Maren’s letters?” her father said angrily. “Aren’t they the ones Boyda mailed from Denmark?”
“Maren wrote them to her cousin, Sophie, in Denmark after Grandpa Frederik brought the family to Minnesota,” her mother said. “Sophie’s daughter sent them to me after her mother died.”“Does anyone know what they say?” Jensen asked.
“Boyda knows a little English. All we know is that your great-grandmother was a very beautiful woman, and that there was another man in love with her,” her mother said. “Your great-grandfather Frederik moved the whole family to the United States to get her away from this man.”
“Wow,” Jensen said. “I wonder what happened.”
“I’m sure there’s more to the story, but that’s all I’ve ever been able to find out,” her mother said.
When they'd said all there was to say, Jensen turned back onto the road and slowly crested a hill, her mind whirling so fast the car could barely keep up.
She was too tired to even think about unpacking her car by the time she reached home - besides, she had no place to put the things she'd saved. Her garage was full of antiques she'd picked up at this garage sale or that back in the days when she'd assumed that she would be the one living in Maren's big house. That she would need a big oak dresser for her son, a walnut wardrobe for her daughter, and a basinet for her baby.
Yeah, well, a car full of "junk" and a stack of sooty letters was all that was left of those dreams.
NIGHT AND DAY
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