If you two are still pretty much in agreement, then you get married. You know, talk about which family you're going to visit on the holidays, whether you want to live in a house or an apartment, whether to get a dog or a cat, who gets to use the shower first in the morning, while there's still plenty of hot water. See if you two are compatible in the big, 'this is our life and we're in it together' decisions. 'First, you meet a nice girl, and then you date for a while to make sure you share the same values. While the novel picks up the tale of Lexie Darnell and Jeremy Marsh that started in True Believer and will delight fans of that novel, it stands on its own as one of Nicholas Sparks’s most deeply moving love stories. More than that, it is a story that beautifully portrays how the same emotion that can break your heart is also the one that will ultimately heal it. But just as his life seems to be settling into a blissful pattern, an unsettling and mysterious message re-opens old wounds and sets off a chain of events that will forever change the course of this young couple’s marriage.ĭramatic, heartbreaking and surprising, this is a story about the love between a man and a woman and between a parent and a child. Now, Jeremy is living in the tiny town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, married to Lexie Darnell, the love of his life, and anticipating the birth of their daughter. There are a few things Jeremy Marsh was sure he’d never do: he’d never leave New York City never give his heart away again after barely surviving one failed marriage and, most of all, never become a parent.

At first sight sparks