Dear Mr. Knightley

Samantha Moore has always hidden behind the words of her favorite books, especially Jane Austen. When an anonymous benefactor known as Mr. Knightley offers her a scholarship to Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, she has one condition to meet. She must write him regular letters about her life, and those letters slowly become the way she starts telling the truth about herself. Set in the modern U.S. college world, Dear Mr. Knightley is told mostly through Samantha’s point of view in her letters. It follows her as she adjusts to graduate school, faces her past, and begins to open up to new people. This is a clean, character-driven story with literary charm, emotional growth, and a gentle romance thread.