A Letter for Amelia — Gary M. Roberts

He sent her husband to war. Now, with the fighting over and a promise to keep, Nathan rides home to deliver a letter-and face the love and guilt he's carried for years. When the guns fall silent after the Civil War, Nathan returns home carrying more than his own wounds. He carries a promise - and a letter. A letter for Amelia Proctor, the childhood friend he once adored, now the grieving widow of the man he persuaded to march off to war.Amelia has survived loss by hardening her heart. She wants nothing from the man who brought her sorrow - especially not help. But when Nathan arrives, broken and guilt-ridden, determined to restore the farm she and her young son struggle to keep alive, she cannot turn him away.Day by day, mending fences and planting seeds, Nathan proves himself more than the messenger of bad news. Slowly, trust begins to take root where anger once thrived. As the seasons turn, laughter returns to the farmhouse, and hope stirs in hearts that believed love had no place left.But letting go of grief is its own kind of battle. Can Amelia open her heart to the man who was once the source of her deepest pain - and can Nathan forgive himself enough to stay?A tender story of healing, redemption, and the quiet power of love after loss.