A family death, a secret agony aunt and a pair of star-crossed lovers lost to the pages of Doctor Love forever – or are they?
Aspiring journalist Ella Lawson thought she knew everything there was to know about her beloved Aunt Gina, but when she passes away and Ella begins the difficult task of packing up her aunt’s belongings, she discovers Aunt Gina had been keeping plenty of secrets.
Throughout the nineties, Aunt Gina had been secretly moonlighting as an anonymous agony aunt for magazines and newspapers, but one desperate letter from a pair of star-crossed lovers to her alter ego Doctor Love appears to have been filed away unanswered.
With the help of her best friend Jazz, Ella is determined to follow the trail and find out if the lovers who had sought the help of Doctor Love to run away together more than thirty years ago, ever made their escape. Ella also knows this story could help her finally snatch the one journalist position on offer at the local paper from her rival cadet and nemesis, Sam.
But the path to finding out if true love really conquers all is less than smooth. As they chase down leads and locate the young man who wrote the letters all those years ago, his handsome son, Callum is determined to help them unravel the mystery - whether Ella likes it or not.
What soon becomes clear is that the star-crossed lovers aren’t the only mystery that needs solving. When Ella and Jazz bring back Dear Doctor Love – the online version - the letters begin to roll in and the mystery of the lost lovers unravels, but Callum seems to be hiding his own secrets, Jazz becomes withdrawn and obsessed with a letter from a young pregnant girl, and worse still, Ella discovers her mum has some shameful family secrets of her own.
Can Ella find the answers and write the story of a lifetime before she loses her cadetship, her best friend, and the guy she’s falling for?
From the author of the Confetti Confidential series and Aloha Love comes a romantic dramedy with heart, and a little mystery. For lovers of Sophie Kinsella, Marian Keyes and Kathy Lette.
