Love Letters Books in Order

Love Letters is Ava Miles’s most historical series, a pair of connected stories set around World War II. Instead of small-town newspapers or Nashville stages, these books center on handwritten letters, battlefields, and the fragile window of peace that follows a global war.

The series begins with Letters Across An Open Sea, an epistolary tale told entirely through correspondence. Noah Weatherby is a young soldier who went to war believing he had nothing to lose. After a fellow soldier and close friend is killed, Noah honors a final request by writing to the man's sister, Anna Sims. What starts as a dutiful note turns into a lifeline as the two strangers trade letters about grief, faith, and the small details that make life worth living when everything around them is uncertain.

Along Waters Of Sunshine And Shadow picks up their story once the guns fall silent. Noah returns from Europe carrying visible and invisible scars, finally standing face-to-face with the woman he has loved on paper for so long. Anna is overjoyed he survived, but she is also juggling her own loss and a mother who cannot bear to have a soldier in the house.

Together they have to figure out how to turn an intense, idealized wartime connection into a real partnership in a world that is still reeling.

These books showcase a slightly different side of Ava Miles. The pacing is quieter, the stakes more internal, but the emotional questions are huge: what do we owe the dead, how do we live alongside memories we cannot forget, and can love really carry people through the aftermath of violence. Readers who like character-driven historical romance and slow-burn intimacy, plus a strong focus on family and community, will find those threads here along with the hopefulness that runs through all of her work.

You can read Letters Across An Open Sea as a self-contained novella or continue straight into the full-length novel to see how Noah and Anna’s story unfolds. Either way, expect a blend of wartime grit, tender vulnerability, and the sense that even in dark times, ordinary people can choose compassion and courage.