Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was
turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father
moved from New York City to Wrightsville Beach, North
Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and
alientated from her parents, especially her father...until
her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest
if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. Ronnie's
father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a
quiet life in the beach town, immersed in creating a work of
art that will become the centerpiece of a local
church.
The tale that unfolds is an
unforgettable story of love on many levels--first love, love
between parents and children -- that demonstrates, as only a
Nicholas Sparks novel can, the many ways that love can break
our hearts...and heal them.