Winner! Burning Bridges has won the Gold Medal from Coffee Pot Book Club for best Romance in 2020!!Not your typical "secret baby" romance. This Southern tale of love lost, love found will stir your emotions!Consider the role of strangers in our lives. An unknown postman in Virginia hides a bag of mail one day. His simple action set in motion untold consequences for many others-strangers-all over the country. How many bridges were burned in that forgotten mail pouch?Sara Richards's world is rocked when three love letters from 1970 are delivered decades late. The letters were written by Paul Steinert, a young sailor who took her innocence with whispered words of love and promises of forever before leaving for Vietnam. Sara is left behind, heartbroken and secretly pregnant, yearning for letters she never received.Then he died.Now, years later, she discovers the betrayal wasn't Paul's, when her mother confesses to a sin that changed their lives forever. How can Sara reveal to Paul's parents that they have a granddaughter they've missed the chance to know? Even worse, how will she find the words to tell her daughter that she's lived her life in the shadow of a lie?Picking her way through the minefields of distrust and betrayal, Sara finds that putting her life together again while crossing burning bridges will be the hardest thing she's ever done.