Can you resist the depths of the human heart It is 1958 and seventeen-year-old Landon is revelling in his youth: dating girls and even claiming to have been in love. He is a world apart from shy, reclusive Jamie Sullivan, a Baptist's daughter who carries a bible with her school books, cares for her widowed father and volunteers at the orphanage. But fate will intervene. Forced to partner up at the school dance, Landon and Jamie embark on a journey of earth-shattering love and agonising loss far beyond their years. In the months that follow, Landon discovers the true depths of the human heart, and takes a decision that is so stunning it will lead him irrevocably down the road to manhood . . .

An epic love story, which became a major Hollywood film starring Mandy Moore, by the bestselling author of The Notebook and The Last Song

Nicholas Sparks, geb. 1965 in Nebraska, lebt mit seiner Frau und den fünf Kindern in North Carolina. Mit seinen gefühlvollen Romanen, die ausnahmslos die Bestsellerlisten eroberten und weltweit in 46 Ländern erscheinen, gilt Sparks als einer der meistgelesenen Autoren der Welt. Mehrere seiner Bestseller wurden erfolgreich verfilmt.