Echoes of Tomorrow: When Love Crosses The Boundaries Time

The first letter arrives on a Monday morning in June. The handwriting is hers.Mara Whitfield came to Lisbon to stop waiting. She left Boston a week before her wedding and moved into a fourth-floor flat on the Rua da Rosa. She has a part-time job in an old bookshop and a slice of the river framed between two terracotta roofs. She has promised herself nothing will surprise her again.Then the envelopes begin. They have no stamp and no postmark, and they are signed only M. They are written in Mara's own hand, older and steadier, and they know things no one else could know. Do not be afraid of me, the first one says. He is called Luca.Luca Ferrante is an Italian photographer who carries his late father's Leica and rarely looks through it. In two weeks he will fly to the far end of the world for the contract of his life. Mara has no intention of falling for him. But the letters keep coming, delivered by a quiet seamstress who knocks three times and pauses. They lead her into the old streets of Alfama, to the ruins of a café that burned twenty years ago, and to a yellow room where the light stops at the same hour every afternoon.Then she finds a black-and-white photograph of a man and a woman at a café table. Mara has never sat at that table. The woman wears a dress Mara has not yet bought. And the photograph is already old.Set in the scent of grilled sardines and the rattle of tram 28 during Lisbon's June festivals, Echoes of Tomorrow is a luminous, heartfelt novel about second chances, lost loves and the courage to believe the future might be on your side.Some letters are written to the past. Some are written to save it.