Shelton grad sets book in 1920s New York

Laura Bradshaw and Isaac Campbell come from affluent families.

Their fathers, once business partners, are now rivals, enemies. A feud between their families sets the tone of Rachel Fordham's book, "The Letter Tree," a historical-fiction romance her publicist describes as a cross between "You've Got Mail" and "Romeo and Juliet."

"She's been sheltered, sort of locked in her tower, per se," Fordham told The Port Townsend Leader of her heroine, Laura Bradshaw. "He's the opposite. He's had a lot of freedom but he wanders. He is sort of lost because he's had no real responsibility. What they have in...