THE LAST VALENTINE became a New York Times and USA Today bestseller with its debut in 1998 hardcover. Inspired by his mother telling the author of her wait for his father to come home from World War Two, the novel was called, "The Love Story America is Taking to Heart," by critics, as well as, "A Return Ticket to Bridges of Madison County territory," by Publisher's Weekly for the emotional element.

It quickly placed among the top reads in national Book Clubs, Library Reader selections, and Bookstore Bestseller Lists. Readers as young as 10 years old, and as aged as 90+, wrote to the author to share how the story impacted their lives; and the fan mail continues to this day.

The first edition was translated into several foreign languages and has endured as a love story favorite for fans worldwide. Hallmark Hall of Fame acquired the film rights and retitled the story, THE LOST VALENTINE, which still airs each year since the World Premier and CBS Movie of the Week debut in 2011.

Hallmark chose actresses Betty White and Jennifer Love Huish to play the lead roles in this retelling of a World War Two drama of a wife - Caroline Thomas - who waited for fifty years for her "Last Valentine" to return from the jungles of the Philippines. Told through the eyes of a son, Neil Thomas, Jr.

to a skeptical journalist - Susan Allison -- who held a cynic view that "true love" could ever be found -- the ethereal twists and turns of fate over 50 years offer lessons of romance, passion, love, faith, heroism, and redemption, completing Caroline's journey of love with her missing-in-action husband, Navy Lieutenant Neil Thomas. When he mysteriously keeps his promise to return to the place where they last embraced in 1944 - Los Angeles Union Train Station - Caroline finds that love is greater in the end than it was in the beginning, and Susan's heart turns to surrender as she learns the meaning of what Tennyson the poet said, "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

" Pratt's novels have been called "Classics" and "Timeless" by critics and book lovers alike. For the emotional impact, Booklist called James Michael Pratt, "A master of moral fiction.

" His historical romance and other fiction works have been compared to those of authors Nicholas Sparks, Richard Paul Evans, and Charles Martin. After a quiet period in book production to write and heal from life-long spinal injuries, the author's publishing rights unexpectedly returned to him in late 2021.

Now James Michael Pratt debuts this enhanced Special 25th Anniversary Edition, The Lost Valentine, in eBook and paperback in 2024; with 4 additional bestselling titles becoming enhanced and revised for 2nd Edition publishing, and 4 never-before-seen novels to be released over the coming months. They include the bestselling novels: The Lighthouse Keeper, Ticket Home, Paradise Bay, The Good Heart, and new to the book world: The Christ Report, As a Man Thinketh.

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in His Heart, When the Last Leaf Falls, and In a Place Called Love. More details about the author and his works may be learned at his website: www.

jamesmichaelpratt. com.

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