YOUR’S TRULY: THE LOVELORN, a multi-author sweet historical romance series, puts an old-fashioned spin on the modern-day “Dear Abby”-style newspaper articles. Each story features someone frustrated in love who writes to The Lovelorn. Then the complications set in. Each book stands alone and will have its author’s unique creative touch.
Book One – “Dear Lovelorn”
No one takes Annette Baldwin … takes Annette Baldwin seriously as an aspiring journalist. Not even her father, the owner of a prominent newspaper. At the age of 25, most view her as a hopeless spinster, an utterly lost cause, and painfully few see the talented writer she’s become. When her father is forced to fire one of his journalists, he relents and allows Annette to publish an article under the alias Lovelorn. Lovelorn is an immediate success, and the community is stirred by Annette’s moving work. Soon people begin writing to Lovelorn for romantic advice. Annette’s father cannot resist the overwhelming success of his daughter’s column and allows her to continue so long as her identity remains a secret. If she’s found out, it could mean her ruin…
When Annette’s own, non-existent, love life begins to blossom, she attempts to heed her own advice–a feat much easier said than done! Is love possible for the Lovelorn to find love? Or will her efforts to become a successful journalist doom her to a spinster’s existence?
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This book is a quick read. It will hold your attention until you finish. I like how the story flows and it also helps set up some future books. I will enjoy reading the other books.
Dear Lovelorn is book one in the Yours Truly: The Lovelorn and does a good job of setting up the series. I enjoyed the characters and the author does a good job of giving each a unique personality. Annette is strong willed with goals of her own, but understands the constraints of the era and society. Her father is gruff, but you can tell he loves his daughter. The romance aspect was a little rushed, but that is to be expected in a novella. The fact that Annette and Peter have known each other a long time gives credibility to the story. I loved reading the letters and Annette’s responses, and was very happy to discover that some of these letter writers get their own book. A quick, enjoyable read.
She gave up on love and he was desperately look everywhere except right in front of him. She decided to concentrate on her writing career. An anonymous advice column for her father’s newspaper and he was his father’s assistant. That’s when they started to notice each other.
I really enjoyed this story and the fun advise given in the column. The characters were nicely done. I would recommend this and plan to read the rest of the series.
What a fun new series. I can’t wait to see where it goes. Annette and Peter’s story is so sweet and perfect for a short story. I love her spunk and drive and Peter is a romantic. I wouldn’t have guessed it at first, but his true colors shone through.
St Louis, Missouri 1880
Annette Baldwin’s father owned the town’s newspaper and she’d grown up wanting to be a writer and be a taken serious as a journalist on his staff. But it was still a man’s world it seemed and so she mainly opened the mail and did other jobs for him.
She had pretty much given up on finding love as well. It seemed all the men she had gone out with only wanted access to her father and his money!
One day as she started noticing letters coming in from women, she realized there was an opportunity to write articles to win the women readers and “Dear Lovelorn” was born. Surprisingly her father told her he would give her two weeks and see how she did.
It was a surprising success and her father let her continue and kept it a secret who was writing the articles and answering the letters that came in!
Unfortunately she needed advice herself, because she thought she would never find love…. But the most surprising thing started to happen with someone she had know for a long time….
Wow! This story was so sweet and just perfect for a short read! Marie Higgins perfectly set up the entire series to come with her delightful tale and I cannot wait to read them all!!
From today’s viewpoint it is hard to realize how small a lady’s world was in in 1880. A young lady was expected to spend her days visiting friends, sewing, painting, running a household and preparing to be a wife and mother. Annette Baldwin doesn’t fit that mold. Marie Higgins brings us another story with wonderful characters that don’t fit the ”normal” mold and a storyline that keeps you amused and reading to the end. This is an enjoyable story.
Fabulous start to a new series. Sweet romance, secrets, intrigue and the power of the written word give this story plenty of adventure. Wonderful read!
YOUR’S TRULY: THE LOVELORN, a multi-author sweet historical romance series, puts an old-fashioned spin on the modern-day “Dear Abby”-style newspaper articles. Each story features someone frustrated in love who writes to The Lovelorn. Then the complications set in. Each book stands alone and will have its author’s unique creative touch.
Love this BOOK 1 in the series. Strong characters are created as only Marie Higgins can do. This book introduces readers to the Lovelorn, and wets our appetite for many more love stories to come. Thanks Marie.
I really enjoyed Dear Lovelorn. Annette is such a positive, happy character despite the fact that her father will not allow her to write for his newspaper. Peter is another fun character. Peter met Annette when she was nine and he was nineteen but he has suddenly realized that he is lonely and that she brightens his day. This is just a fun, sweet romance. I was captivated by the book.
I loved this book. It’s like how Dear Abby might have started. The relationship that develops between Annette & Peter is very sweet. Wonder how the other books will be?
This was during a time that women who were not married by the age of twenty five were considered a spinster and Annette could care less that she considered that way because all she has ever wanted to do was to be a journalist but her father who owns a newspaper refuses. One day when he is desperate for a journalist he lets her write a article under another name and much to his surprise she becomes a hit with the public and much to her surprise she has caught the attention of Peter. Loved this sweet romance when a time women were not given many rights and the surprise romance was just a bonus.