The Lost Valentine

The "Special 25th Anniversary Edition" of THE LOST VALENTINE (2024) takes the reader back in time to the days of World War Two as Caroline Thomas waits faithfully through the next 50 years for her husband, Navy Pilot, Lieutenant Neil Thomas to keep a date and a promise. Her wait begins at Union Train Station, Los Angeles. As told by her son, Neil Thomas, Jr. to reporter and journalist Susan Allison, a promise to return by their wedding anniversary, Valentine's Day 1945, doesn't stop Caroline from keeping her promise to her MIA husband.

The timeless love story, viewed by millions of Hallmark Hall of Fame movie fans, shares Caroline's views about the nature of true and enduring love. Can Susan Allison learn Caroline's romantic secret, as Neil Jr shares the mysterious and startling nature of a promise finally kept? And when she does, can second chances and love become as real for them as Caroline and her husband's love once was?

The original work was titled, The Last Valentine, and was adapted to film by Hallmark Hall of Fame in 2011 as The Lost Valentine, starring Betty White and Jennifer Love Hewitt. Readers a young as 11 years old and as old as 100, have shared with the author their love for the story and its impact personally upon them.

"Mr. Pratt: I first wrote to you about my love for The Last Valentine when I was just 11. I just graduated from Boston College and thought you'd like to know it continues to impact my life." ~Grace Huang

"It is now midnight, the witching hour, and I just finished reading The Last Valentine for the 6th time!  Yes, I cried my eyes out again, at the most beautiful love story I have ever read! Everyone from 16 years old and up should read this story!" ~Helen Mulholland

"I gave an oral review of The Lost Valentine just the other day at our book club and there wasn't a dry eye in the room by the time I finished. You sure do have a way of telling a love story! Don't change!" ~Georgina Tacconi 

The author now owns all publishing rights and is taking the time to edit and enhance this special edition as well as other works formerly published by major industry names. More information and background on this, and coming titles for republishing, may be found at the author's website: www.jamesmichaelpratt.com.