Description: SHE BELIEVES HE IS DEAD. HE BELIEVES SHE IS WAITING.
Bellweather, Kansas, 1930. Seven-year-old Will Watt is hanging from a cottonwood when Evelyn Tovey calls him an idiot. From that moment, Will and Evie are inseparable. Through the Depression and choking dust storms, friendship becomes first love, marriage and a little life of their own. Then America enters the war. Will is sent across the Atlantic while Evie remains home, carrying their child and counting the days between his letters. Their private word, Luma, and two taps over the heart become a promise no distance can silence. In the chaos of the Ardennes, Will lends part of his identifying gear to another soldier. The man is killed. Will is captured. And one terrible mistake travels home. The official letter tells Evie her husband is dead. Behind German wire, Will clings to photographs of the wife and son he believes are waiting. She is learning to live beside his absence. He is fighting to survive long enough to come home. The Letter Said He Was Dead is an emotional historical love story of childhood sweethearts, marriage, family, sacrifice and the devastating power of a name placed on the wrong man.