History Literature / ReturnToSender

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Lin and Sally, with Jason Vinery's help, go around shutting down Nick's accounts, kidnapping Nick's wife, and posting up scandalous articles about the Pembertons. This would technically be considered dog-kicking, but Nick is such a Jerkass that he had to be taken down a peg or two.

* BiggerBad: Pemberton Senior. [[spoiler: He abused Nick's mother. It got to the point he put her in Dr. Steffani's institution and had the doctor kill her for him. Senior made Nick Pemberton into the jerk he is today. He made sure that Nick would be trapped in a heartless marriage with Chelsea. He died of natural causes in his eighties]].

''Return To Sender'' is a 2010 romance book written by Creator/FernMichaels.

* NiceToTheWaiter: Nick Pemberton and Chelsea show themselves to be this, because they treat just about everyone like dirt. In fact, Chelsea thinks that the staff working for them are essentially treated like eighteenth-century slaves. However, unlike Chelsea, Nick proves that he can be nice to people who he considers inferiors.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Lin Townsend enlists the help of Private Investigator Jason Vinery to inconvenience Nick by closing his accounts, kidnapping his wife, posting an article about Pemberton Senior's abuse, urging Will not to donate bone marrow to his father, and sending Nick a recording of [[spoiler: Dr. Steffani killing Nick's mother on Pemberton Senior's orders]]. While never getting responses from Nick at a bad time in her life is hurtful, doing all this to Nick seems a little out of proportion.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Lin Townsend enlists the help of Private Investigator Jason Vinery to inconvenience Nick by closing his accounts, kidnapping his wife, posting an article about Pemberton Senior's abuse, urging Will not to donate bone marrow to his father, and sending Nick a recording of [[spoiler: Dr. Steffani killing Nick's mother on Pemberton Sensior's orders]]. While never getting responses from Nick at a bad time in her life is hurtful, doing all this to Nick seems a little out of proportion.

''Return To Sender'' is a 2010 book written by Creator/FernMichaels.

At seventeen, Rosalind “Lin” Townsend finds herself pregnant and alone. Her father, deeply religious yet cruel, throws her out of the house. Nick Pemberton, her baby’s father and the man she naively hoped might marry her, rejects her. Yet even at the lowest point in her life, Lin vows to succeed on her own terms, and to give her son, Will, all the love and happiness she’s been denied. Nineteen years later, Lin has made good on her promises. She’s the owner of a thriving diner in her Georgia hometown, and Will has grown into a fine, intelligent young man who’s about to start his freshman year at NYU. But when Lin visits New York with Will, she crosses paths with the one man she was sure she’d never see again — Nick Pemberton, now a millionaire CEO, the man who sent back all her letters unopened, marked "Return to Sender". Seeing him fills Lin with anger — and she resolves to right the wrong he did to Will. Helped by Jason, a hired detective, and her best friend, Sally, Lin sets out to disrupt Nick’s life and his finances, with spectacular results. But the truth is more complex and surprising than she imagined. And soon Lin must choose — between the revenge she thought would free her, and the bright new future that’s about to be delivered to her door....