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 Tybee Island, Georgia. Three years later, she remains
angry and alienated from her parents, especially her father ...until
her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent
the summer on Tybee Island 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 about love in
its myriad forms - first love, the love between parents and children -
that demonstrates, as only a Nicholas Sparks novel can, the many ways
that deeply felt relationships can break our hearts ...and heal them.