The Wooing of Rosamond Fayre

A woman falls in love with a man through letters she wrote for someone else, and then has to watch him fall for her while believing she's someone else entirely. Rosamond Fayre takes a position as secretary to kind-hearted Eleanor Urquhart, only to be asked to compose Eleanor's weekly letters to Ted, the cousin she's engaged to. Rosamond signs Eleanor's name, but her own voice bleeds through: her warmth, her humor, her quietly independent spirit. When Ted returns unexpectedly to England, searching for his fiancée, he finds Rosamond at a French seaside hostel and mistakes her for Eleanor. He's intrigued. He's smitten. And Rosamond, who knows exactly who he is, says nothing. What follows is a delicious tangle of pretense and growing genuine feeling, as two people circle each other while war gathers on the horizon. Ruck writes with sharp wit and genuine tenderness, this is no fluffy romance but a sharp, knowing comedy of errors about the lies we keep and the truths we can't hide.