Love Letters for Other People

Author: Shaylin Gandhi Title: Love Letters for Other People Publisher: Canary Street Press Date Published: 12/09/2025

Read Dates: 11/15/2025- 11/16/2025
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐💫

 📖 I received a gifted e-book ARC. The following is my honest review✍🏻

Love Letters for Other People is a multi POV, dual timeline, second-chance romance. It is mostly told from the perspectives of Nick and Aubrey, who fell in love in high school and were torn apart by unexpected circumstances. 17 years later, reeling from a professional setback, Aubrey returns to their small town to plan her next steps. There she runs into Nick, who spends his days at the steel mill and at night writes love letters for other people as a way to get his pent-up emotions around the one who got away out of his system. The circumstances that drove them apart don't seem to have changed, though, and Aubrey tries to move on with a new man, one whose love letters seem strangely reminiscent of the intense love she once lost. I enjoyed a lot of this book, and struggled with other things. I loved the dual timeline, the second-chance love story, and the "it has always been you" love shared between the two. Things I struggled with might not be issues for the right audience- Nick is legally married for most of the book. It is made clear from the beginning that he and his wife have separated emotionally, and consider themselves free to see other people, but they have not even started to dissolve the marriage, and that just rubs me the wrong way. That, coupled with a lot of OM/OW drama, was just a bit much for me to really get lost in the story.

An emotionally gripping page-turner about heartbreak, old secrets, and second chances—with an unexpected Cyrano twist. For fans of Lucy Score and Mia Sheridan.

When mathematician Aubrey MacLean’s career implodes, she has no choice but to return to her rural Indiana hometown, at least temporarily. But small towns have long memories, and so does she, especially when it comes to Nick Thacker, the boy who broke her heart.

Nick’s life is long shifts at the steel mill, plus a side business writing love letters for other people. It’s enough to numb his regrets—until his first love returns, stirring up a past he thought he’d buried.

Aubrey is focused on rebuilding her career, until she falls for a new man whose love letters feel achingly familiar. But as their connection deepens, so does her sense that she’s been here before. The similarities must be a coincidence, right? Because if not, Aubrey may have to choose between the life she’s built and the love she left behind…