We all wear two masks. One to hide from the world. The other to hide from ourselves.From Inger Iversen, the first book in a best-selling BWWM romance series, A Future Worth Fighting For that reaches across the great divide between prejudice and love.Katie Andreasson’s home office, where she writes best-selling novels, is her refuge from criticism that her private education, her success–even the … success–even the way she speaks–betrays her own race. With her mother’s death, grief and increasing isolation inspire her to create Capshaw Penitentiary’s pen pal program. Even secretly participate, though her adopted father–the prison warden–would never approve.
Growing up in hardscrabble, rural Kentucky, Logan Whyte learned the hard way to stick with his own kind to stay out of trouble. Still, skirting the edges of the wrong crowd eventually landed him in prison–face to face with the kind of hard-core prejudice he never whole-heartedly embraced.
Now, with plans to get his life back on track once he’s out, he’s exchanging letters with “Kristen”. The rules dictate they can never meet, yet her neatly penned letters do more than ease him toward rejoining the human race. They make him imagine what it would be like to touch the woman behind them. Maybe even call her his.
Safely hidden behind anonymous letters, friendship takes root and grows into bittersweet yearning. But as they break down emotional walls, the truth is revealed, leaving them with the greatest challenge of all. Proving to themselves–and the outside world–that love is truly colorblind.
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My first prison pen pal love story & I found it very interesting. So many different views of people of other races & why they held them.
Liked the premise and the way it resolves. Not saying more because I don’t want to give it away.
I listened to the audiobook of this novel many years ago and absolutely loved it. The relationship between Logan and Katie was so beautiful and touching. How they are able to deal with their relationship issues while he is incarcerated is astounding. I have worked in prisons and most of the offenders have several “relationships” because they do …
An African-American woman befriends a white inmate through a pen pal program. Katie is a lonely writer who values the connection she makes with Logan. However, Logan’s past interactions with people of color have not been positive. Will he still care about Katie when he learns who she really is? Will their friends/enemies come between them?
This is …
I like the premiums of this book a lot, we make way too much on appearances and not enough on hearts. It was a very good lesion on overcoming hate and bigotry and second chances. The overall theme was inspirational but the sex was totally so descriptive, for me too much. I’m a grown person and well versed on what goes on behind closed doors so …
I enjoyed the read loved how it ended well it still continued in the other books
I wanted to love this.
I read it. All the way to the end.
That should count, right?
I’ll say this; the issue was very likely me and not the story.
The writing was good, I could see the author’s vision for this story, Logan and Katie. What happened? I just couldn’t connect to any of the characters.
I forced myself to read it because I wanted to …
Wow!!! The author was able to deal with a sensitive topic in an honest, respectful manner. The characters and scenarios were realistic . . . even the over-protective best friend.
AFTER I FINISHED IT I HAD TO IMMEDIATELY DOWNLOAD THE SEQUEL!
This is probably a fantastic book, but not what I was looking for n a romance. I don’t need a primer on race relations while I’m reading romance novels. That’s just me.
This is the third book that I read from this author and it definitely was not a disappointment. The book was just as good as the first two.
Inger keep on writing these great books.