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Jeremy Marsh, a science journalist and professional skeptic, finds himself in over his head when he arrives at the small town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, and falls head over heels for the granddaughter of the supposed town psychic.

In a testimony to the lasting power of love, a man tells an elderly woman a story from a faded old notebook, his voice relating the heartbreaking tale of two lovers and their fifty-year journey to happiness. In a Southern nursing home, an 80-year-old man reads from his diary to his wife, suffering from Alzheimer's. It's the story of their teenage romance, followed by years of separation because he was from the wrong class, followed by her decision,...

From the author of The Longest Ride and The Return comes a novel about the enduring legacy of first love, and the decisions that haunt us forever. In 1996, everything changed for Maggie Dawes. Sent away at sixteen to live with an aunt she barely knew in Ocracoke, a remote village on North Carolina's OUter Banks, she could think only of the friends and family she left behind...until she met Bryce Trickett, one of the few teenagers on the island. Handsome,...

The story of two couples whose parallel love stories intersect in profound and surprising ways.

"Colin Hancock is giving his second chance his best shot. At 28, he's focused only on walking a straight line - getting his teaching degree, working out at the gym religiously, and avoiding all the places and people that proved so destructive in his earlier life. The last thing he's looking for is a serious relationship. But when Maria Sanchez crosses paths with him on a rainswept night in North Carolina, his plans are upended in a way that will rattle...

"When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. 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. Despite her reservations,...

Finding himself happily married, living far from his New York City origins, and anticipating the birth of his first child in spite of previous vows that he would never willingly pursue such a life, Jeremy Marsh receives a mysterious message that reopens wounds from the past and changes the course of his marriage. Jeremy Marsh estaba seguro de que había ciertas cosas que nunca haría: nunca se iría de Nueva York, nunca volvería a entregar su corazón...

Un hombre porta un viejo cuaderno que ha traido y llevado mil veces en su regazo. Una mujer a su lado escucha lo que el le lee cada manana, pero no acaba de entender la historia. Muchos anos antes, Noah Calhoun vuelve a su casa en Carolina del Norte, despues de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Noah intenta que la plantacion de la que procede vuelva a su antigua gloria, pero las imagenes de la preciosa joven que conocio catorce anos antes, una mujer a la...

"Colin Hancock is giving his second chance his best shot. At 28, he's focused only on walking a straight line - getting his teaching degree, working out at the gym religiously, and avoiding all the places and people that proved so destructive in his earlier life. The last thing he's looking for is a serious relationship. But when Maria Sanchez crosses paths with him on a rainswept night in North Carolina, his plans are upended in a way that will rattle...