There was a time when the world was sweeter…when the women in Beaufort,North Carolina,wore drisses,and the men donnde hats,Every April,when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs,Landon Carter remembers1958,his last year at Beauroft High.Landon had datde a girl or two,and even once sworn that he'd been in love.Certainly the last person th thought he'd fall for was Jamie,the shy,almost ethereal daughter of the town's Baptist minister…Jamie,who was destined to show him the depths of the humam heart-and the joy and pain of living.

　　 From the internationally bestselling author Nichols Sparks comes his most moving story yet…