The Bridges of Madison County are more likely to hurt this title than help it, but Sparks has a proven track record, and major television and print advertising and a 25-city author tour should inflate sales. Sparks builds a taut, plausible relationship between his protagonists, but even fans may be irked by the obviousness of their story and the inevitability of their fate. From 1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks comes a tender story of hope and joy, of sacrifice and forgiveness-a moving reminder that love is. Paul Flanner, her paramour, is a surgeon and an obsessive workaholic with no genuine connection to his wife or son, whose world completely falls apart when one of his patients inexplicably dies. This rejection colors her entire life, and Sparks realistically portrays a vulnerable and isolated woman who throws herself into raising her children to escape her despair.

At the time, Adrienne was an uptight matron whose ex-husband had just left her for a younger woman. Beginning Monday NCDOT will being the process of taking up the old road and returning the two miles to its original state in Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge. To help her troubled daughter cope with the untimely recent death of her husband, Adrienne tells her the tale of her love affair, which took place 15 years before. it’s time to say good bye to the S Curves, the stretch of road just to the north of Rodanthe that is famousor infamousfor flooding and sealing off Hatteras Island. As the story begins, Adrienne Willis is 60, the divorced mother of three grown children. Once again, a housewife who has focused on everyone but herself indulges in a brief, intense, secret affair with a stranger who changes her life forever.

The impassioned but doomed romance seems to owe much to Robert James Waller's The Bridges of Madison County. Sparks ( A Bend in the Road, etc.) logs more miles on the winding high road of romance with the story of two middle-aged people who meet by chance in the small North Carolina coastal town of Rodanthe.

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