Před dvěma lety zemřela při autonehodě žena šerifova náměstka Milese Ryana. Viník z místa havárie ujel a třicetiletý Miles zůstal na výchovu pětiletého syna sám.
Chlapcova učitelka Sarah Andrewsová záhy zjistila, že znalosti druháka Jonaha jsou nedostatečné. Její kolegyně jej zřejmě ze soucitu nezkoušely a nechtěly po něm žádnou práci. Proto nabízí Milesovi, že bude ve volných chvílích chlapce doučovat.
Statný a sympatický muž hezké osmadvacetileté učitelce imponuje. A protože i ona touží najít ve svém životě oporu – její manželství ztroskotalo proto, že nemohla mít vlastní děti – začne se mezi nimi brzy rozvíjet silný milostný vztah. I Miles pociťuje touhu založit novou rodinu. Stále ho však provází utkvělá myšlenka: musí zjistit, kdo zabil jeho ženu. Čím více se prohlubuje vztah mezi Milesem a Sarah, tím blíže je rozluštění záhady, kdo zavinil smrt jeho manželky. Po zjištění, že smrt zavinil bratr Sarah, je jejich vztah ohrožený...
When confronted by raging fires or deadly accidents, volunteer fireman Taylor McAden feels compelled to take terrifying risks; but there is one leap of faith Taylor can't bring himself to make: He can't fall in love. BookPage calls Nicholas Sparks, "a modern master of fateful love stories," and his phenomenal bestsellers- The Notebook, Message in a Bottle, and A Walk to Remember- have made him one of America's most beloved storytellers. Here, in his newest work, Sparks tells a story about making the greatest commitment of all...loving someone forever. The Rescue When confronted by raging fires or deadly accidents, volunteer fireman Taylor McAden feels compelled to take terrifying risks - risks no one else in the department would ever take - to save lives. But there is one leap of faith Taylor can't bring himself to make: He can't fall in love. For all his adult years, Taylor has sought out women who need to be rescued, women he leaves as soon as their crisis is over, as soon as the relationship starts to become truly intimate. Then, one day, a raging, record-breaking storm hits his small Southern town. Denise Holton, a young single mother, is driving through it when her car skids off the road. With her is her four-year-old son, Kyle, a boy with severe learning disabilities and for whom she has sacrificed everything. Unconscious and bleeding, she-but not Kyle-will be found by Taylor McAden. And when she wakes, the chilling truth becomes clear to both of them: Kyle is gone. During the search for Kyle, the connection, the lifeline, between Taylor and Denise takes root. Taylor doesn't know that this rescue will be different from all the others, demanding far more than raw physical courage. That it will lead him to the possibility of his own rescue from a life lived without love. That it will require him to open doors to his past that were slammed shut by pain. That it will dare him to live life to the fullest by daring to love. In The Rescue Nicholas Sparks weaves his inimitable spell, immersing us in the passions and the surprising complexities of modern relationships-and in doing so, teaching us something about our own.
