Letters Away - The Prequel: Letters Away

By Elias Raven and Sharon Johnson

Before Jacob and Belle ever started writing letters, they were two average teenagers who practically grew up together and fell in love. They had their whole future mapped out before them. College, marriage, kids and a house with a white picket fence. But fate had other plans, when Jacob was drafted into the Korean War in 1951. Read some of their private thoughts from their journal and diary entries before their lives would change forever in... 

"Letters Away A Love Story" 

The Prequel

By authors: Elias Raven & Sharon Johnson 

• Language: English
• Publisher: AP Publishing LLC
• Release date: Jan 14, 2017
• ISBN: 9781540155016

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Author Bios

Letters Away Prequel

Elias Raven & Sharon Johnson

This story is a work of fiction. The people portrayed in the e-book are either fictitious or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to events, places, persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

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Copyright © 2017 Elias Raven and Sharon Johnson

Chapter 1

June 1951

Dear Diary,

When my best friend Regina told me she and her parents were moving away because of her dad’s new job, it felt like a betrayal. Did her parents not understand that her friendship meant the world to me? I couldn’t fathom life without my partner in crime. What if she found new friends and forgot all about me? I was depressed for weeks after she told me the news. I was certain my life was over and I’d never recover from the loss.

A month later, she and her family were packed and ready to go, and with them my life, the one I was certain was over. A week after they moved away a new family moved in. We hadn’t met them yet, but I knew instantly I’d never like any of them and I’d make sure they knew it. I was pretty sure one of their rotten kids was in Regina’s old room, probably redecorating it and making it look ridiculous. The more I thought about the tragic event in my life, the more mad I got.

The end of school and summer vacation was still four months away. I could just picture all of them in the back yard, making a huge racket every time they swam in Regina’s big pool. Sigh… Oh, how I was going to miss that pool. But there was no way I’d ever swim in it again, even if they asked me to. Which they wouldn’t because we’d be mortal enemies until the day we died. Regina and I had spent so much time in the water that we always looked like shriveled up prunes by the time our moms called us for dinner. How could life be so cruel to a ten-year-old who had everything in life she ever wanted or needed? Every Sunday, as I sat in church listening to the