Letters from Home

Title: Letters From Home Author: Rhonda Nelson [...] X-rated letters from home have Army Ranger, Levi McPherson, tied up in knots. The hardest part is not knowing who the author is. He has a particular person in mind, but his brother's conservative best friend, Natalie Rowland, is most definitely off-limits and couldn't possibly be the one. When he's given the chance to return home for a week after his brother is hurt by a roadside bomb, he's bound and determined to find out the woman's identity. And when he does, he plans to act upon those highly charged sexual fantasies that have been leaving him aching in all the right spots. Natalie has had a crush on Levi for years but never had the courage to act on them. Now that he's fighting the war in Iraq, she realizes how very short life can be and puts her deepest fantasies in writing. When she sends them anonymously to the object of her obsession, she feels completely safe getting her feelings out like this. But what would happen if he ever found out? When her assistant accidently puts her return address label on one of the letters, Natalie knows the game is up. So when Levi returns home for a short visit and starts acting out some of those x-rated fantasies, she decides it couldn't hurt to have a few good memories before he heads back to the front line. Letters From Home is a fast paced story that is easy and fun to read. Rhonda Nelson made this story come alive and the characters jump right off the page. I immediately felt a kinship with them and was rooting for Levi and Natalie right from the start. Letters From Home had an exciting premise and was something I could actually see happening. Ms. Nelson also fueled my interest in Levi's brother, Adam, and his book, The Soldier. I can't wait to dive into this next installment in Rhonda Nelson's "Uniformly Hot" series. I predict that both books will definitely be added to my keeper shelf. Reviewer: Tami Brothers Rating(s): 5 Petit Fours and 4 Hot Tamales Petit Fours and Hot Tamales Blog

Heroes abound in this book by Rhonda Nelson, published in 2009 by Harlequin Blaze and part of their `Uniformly Hot' series. Levi MacPherson's tour of duty in Iraq has been made interesting with anonymous letters from someone back home. She writes as if she knows him well...especially when she describes what she would like to do with him and his various, dreamy body parts. Her sensuous dreams and the images she relates with only her words steam up his tent. With no idea of the author, he pictures Natalie Rowland from his home town in order to give the anonymous words form. A family tragedy earns him a brief visit home, which is about the same time Natalie realizes her assistant accidently stamped one of her outgoing letters with her return address! Tension and heat blaze between these two. He wants her to be the author yet she is concerned how he will react when he discovers her secret. Secondary characters add depth and a serious note while family interactions and small town life builds layers within the plot. Intimate moments steam up the pages. Did I mention the hot cover? The hero aspect comes through loud and clear and I thoroughly enjoyed the book.

This is probably my favorite of Rhonda Nelson's books. The characters are well rounded and the plot is interesting. The writing is also, in my opinion, a higher quality than in some of her previous books. Which is great because whats better than one of your favorite author's work improving?

In Iraq soldier Levi McPherson has been receiving letters from someone who signs them as Ms. X. He looks forward to them while assuming she must be from his Bethel Bay, South Carolina hometown for more than just the post mark. Her descriptions are of home, but it is her confessed attraction for him that has Levi more than anything looking forward to going back to solve the mystery of the unknown woman who wants him. Natalie Rowland has been in love with Levi since they attended high school. She knows sending him letters filled with desire signed by a pseudonym was childish and impetuous yet whimsical. However, he is coming home and her latest batch of letters to him was franked by her assistant with her return address. She expects humiliating rejection. This is a fun contemporary romance as the soldier looks forward to meeting his mysterious Ms. X while his pen pal expects abject humiliation when he comes home. She is unaware that she has been the star of his wet dreams for years. Fans will enjoy this entertaining tale while looking forward to his brother's story with a woman who is good for his sorry ass. Harriet Klausner

Rhonda Nelson has become The "Must Read" author on my romance book list. Her Harlequin Blazes (see my other reviews) are that sparkling combination of fun, clever, funny, and sexy mixed with the right portion of plot, conflict, and contemporary relevance that just makes a romance novel that much more fun to read. When I heard Letters from Home was coming out in June, I started haunting my local book department at the end of May, hoping to snag one. I finally did and read it in one straight sitting... staying up til 3 am to finish it! Always a good sign for a book. Letters from Home brings Army Ranger Levi McPherson back home to South Carolina for a 2 week leave after his brother (Adam) loses part of his leg to a roadside bomb in Iraq. Natalie Rowland is Adam's best friend and the object of Levi's desire -- not that he intends to do anything about it. After all, since she is Adam's best bud and the girl everybody thinks Adam will end up with, she's off limits. Levi's no poacher. The only snag in the road is that Natalie is the face Levi's put to sexy, mysterious letters he's been receiving while deployed. Letters mailed from his home town. Those erotic fantasies have Levi hot and bothered... and determined to find out who the sexy writer really is. This poses quite the problem for Natalie who has been in love with Levi since she was a teenage. She doesn't know why she's never been able to catch Levi's eye, but she gave into the temptation to pen her sexiest, most forbidden thoughts in unsigned letters. Now he's back home, sexier than ever, and hell-bent on cracking the mystery of who wrote the letters. Does Natalie confess and make the most of their time together? Can she let go when he has to ship back out? Will he even want her once he finds out who the "plane jane" is behind the letters? Rhonda Nelson does a great job of building the actual romance and love story between all her characters in her books, and Letters from Home is (thankfully) no different. But Letters from Home took a slightly different, lower key approach. I don't know if its because Levi and Natalie already knew each other and already (secretly) wanted to be together, or if it was because the obsticles standing between them were ones of perception that they'd just never braved enough to face and ask the hard questions about... but the conflicts here are of those types. Not life or death but of fears, expectations, perceptions and sticking to the path "taken" instead of wondering "What if..." when a fork appears in the road. I really liked the secondary characters in Adam (Levi's brother) and Winnie (Natalie's best friend) and can't wait to see their relationship explored in Nelson's July release "The Soldier." They were tremendous fun and I can't wait to see how Winnie is going to shove Adam out of his depression over his injury. These two should be quite unusual and fun, and I love knowing I can buy that book confident that Nelson will perform her uniq