In this #1 New York Times bestselling novel of first love and
second chances, former high school sweethearts confront the painful
truths of their past to build a promising future--together.
"Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd
believed in it once, too, back when she was eighteen."
In the spring of 1984, high school students Amanda Collier and Dawson
Cole fell deeply, irrevocably in love. Though they were from opposite
sides of the tracks, their love for one another seemed to defy the
realities of life in their small town in North Carolina. But as the
summer of their senior year came to a close, unforeseen events would
tear the young couple apart, setting them on radically divergent paths.
Now, twenty-five years later, Amanda and Dawson are summoned back home
for the funeral of Tuck Hostetler, the mentor who once gave shelter to
their high school romance. Neither has lived the life they imagined . .
. and neither can forget the passionate first love that forever changed
their lives. As Amanda and Dawson carry out the instructions Tuck left
behind for them, they realize that everything they thought they
knew--about Tuck, about themselves, and about the dreams they held
dear--was not as it seemed.
Forced to confront painful memories, the former lovers will discover
undeniable truths about the choices they have made. And in the course of
a single, searing weekend, they will ask of the living, and the dead:
Can love truly rewrite the past?
