title: Seaside Letters (Nantucket Love Story)
author:  Denise Hunter 
description: <span>Denise Hunter is the internationally published bestselling author of more than 20 books, including "Dancing with Fireflies" and "The Convenient Groom". She has won The Holt Medallion Award, The Reader's Choice Award, The Foreword Book of the Year Award, and is a RITA finalist.<br /><br />Denise writes heartwarming, small-town love stories. Her readers enjoy the experience of falling in love vicariously through her characters and can expect a happily-ever-after sigh as they close the pages of her books.<br /><br />In 1996, inspired by the death of her grandfather, Denise began her first book, writing while her children napped. Two years later it was published, and she's been writing ever since. Her husband says he inspires all her romantic stories, but Denise insists a good imagination helps too!<br /><br />When Denise isn't orchestrating love lives on the written page, she enjoys traveling with her family, drinking green tea, and playing drums. Denise makes her home in Indiana where she and her husband are raising three boys.<br /><br />You can learn more about Denise through her website DeniseHunterBooks.com or by visiting her FaceBook page at facebook.com/authordenisehunter</span>
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  _An Act of Love_ is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and
  incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used
  fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or
  dead, is entirely coincidental.
  
  
  2014 Ballantine Books eBook Edition
  
  
  Copyright © 1997 by Nancy Thayer
  
  
  Introduction copyright © 2014 by Nancy Thayer
  
  
  Excerpt from _Nantucket Sisters_ by Nancy Thayer copyright © 2014 by Nancy
  Thayer
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random
  House, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company, New
  York.
  
  
  BALLANTINE and the HOUSE colophon are registered trademarks of Random House
  LLC.
  
  
  Originally published in hardcover by St. Martin’s Press in 1997.
  
  
  This book contains an excerpt from the forthcoming book _Nantucket Sisters_ by
  Nanc