<p><strong>Sometimes your greatest challenge can lead to unexpected victories.</strong></p><p>As a paramedic Rocco Pierce is no stranger to making life-and-death decisions and delivering devastating news.&nbsp;Nothing prepared him for a situation quite like this.<br />&nbsp;<br />What exactly do you do with a letter informing you that your wife is dying of breast cancer when you&#39;ve never been married?<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;<br />Crime reporter Mallory Yoshida is used to getting odd fan mail so why should she pay attention to this guy who wants to talk to her about a mysterious letter?&nbsp;&nbsp;After all &nbsp;Mallory is on the verge of a breakthrough in a case she&#39;s been following for years. She doesn&#39;t have time for distractions. &nbsp;Obviously Rocco Pierce didn&#39;t get the memo because he hasn&#39;t stopped lobbying her for an in-person meeting. He says it&#39;s personal but how could it be when they&#39;ve never met?</p><p>&nbsp;Rocco needs to deliver the most awful life-changing news imaginable. Yet when he meets Mallory there is an undeniable connection. Even though none of this is his business &nbsp;Rocco can&#39;t seem to step away.</p><p>He wonders if it was all a bureaucratic failure or simply divine intervention?<br />&nbsp;<br />After all it&#39;s not like the letter is a matter of life and death &mdash; or is it?</p><p><strong>If you like compassionate heroic types in uniform and spunky women who fight for justice you&#39;ll adore this unusual tale of love at first sight under challenging circumstances.</strong></p><p><em>The Letter</em> is a clean and wholesome suspenseful romance. It is the eleventh book in the Hidden Beauty Series and can be read as a standalone novel.</p>