![]() ![]() Beautiful yet self-effacing, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships: one with Alex, a widowed store owner with a kind heart and two young children and another with her plainspoken single neighbor, Jo. When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. As he and Elizabeth embark upon a passionate and all-consuming love affair, the secret he is keeping will soon threaten to tear them apart-destroying not only their love, but also their lives. Caught off guard by the attraction he feels, Thibault keeps the story of the photo, and his luck, a secret. Believing that she somehow holds the key to his destiny, he sets out on a journey across the country to find her, never expecting the strong but vulnerable woman he encounters in Hampton, North Carolina-Elizabeth, a divorced mother with a young son-to be the girl he’s been waiting his whole life to meet. ![]() Only his best friend, Victor, seems to have an explanation for his good fortune: the photograph-his lucky charm.Back home in Colorado, Thibault can’t seem to get the photo-and the woman in it-out of his mind. Soon Thibault experiences a sudden streak of luck-winning poker games and even surviving deadly combat that kills two of his closest buddies. Instead, he brings it back to the base for someone to claim, but when no one does, he finds himself always carrying the photo in his pocket. Marine Logan Thibault finds a photograph of a smiling young woman half-buried in the dirt during his third tour of duty in Iraq, his first instinct is to toss it aside. ![]() With the memories of Noah and Allie's inspiring life together as his guide, he vows to find a way to make his wife fall in love with him…all over again.In this powerfully moving tale of love lost, rediscovered, and renewed, Nicholas Sparks once again brings readers his unique insight into the only emotion that ultimately really matters. But if Wilson is sure of anything, it is this: His love for Jane has only grown over the years, and he will do everything he can to save their marriage. Now his daughter is about to marry, and his wife is thinking about leaving him. ![]() He has spent too little time at home and too much at the office, leaving the responsibility of raising their children to Jane. Despite the shining example of his in-laws, Noah and Allie Calhoun, and their fifty-year love affair, Wilson himself is a man unable to express his true feelings. His wife, Jane, has fallen out of love with him, and it is entirely his fault. Adrienne and Paul come together as the storm brews over Rodanthe, but what begins between them over the weekend will resonate throughout the rest of their lives, intertwining past and future, love and loss.Īfter thirty years, Wilson Lewis is forced to face a painful truth: the romance has gone out of his marriage. Estranged from his son and recently divorced, he's sold his practice and his home and has journeyed to this isolated town in hopes of closing a painful chapter in his past. With a major storm brewing, the time away doesn't look promising…until a guest named Paul Flanner arrives.At 54, Paul is a successful surgeon, but in the previous six months his life has unraveled into something he doesn't recognize. The trials of raising her teenage children and caring for her sick father have worn her down, but at the request of a friend and in hopes of respite, she's gone to the coastal village of Rodanthe in North Carolina to tend the local inn for the weekend. Struggling to care for her sick father and raise her teenage children alone, a divorced mother spends the weekend at a North Carolina inn, only to meet a former surgeon running from his past.Adrienne Willis is 45 and has been divorced for three years, abandoned by her husband for a younger woman. ![]()
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