The Love Letter — Cathleen Schine

Helen MacFarquhar is smart, stunning, independent, and sexy. She was married once, and that was enough. Now she is perfectly happy raising her eleven-year-old daughter, running her own bookstore, and having pleasing passing affairs with sensibly selected lovers. Certainly she should have enough self-control and savvy to resist a twenty-year-old college student who works for her, no matter how attractive and attracted he is.

Does she? Or does she not?