Nicholas Sparks is one of the world’s most beloved storytellers. All of his books have been New York Times bestsellers, with over 105 million copies sold worldwide, in more than 50 languages, including over 75 million copies in the United States alone. Sparks wrote one of his best-known stories, The Notebook, over a period of six months at age 28. It was published in 1996 and he followed with the novels Message in a Bottle (1998), A Walk to Remember (1999), The Rescue (2000), A Bend in the Ro...
The Return
The Return
Synopsis
Trevor Benson has no plans to come back to New Bern, North Carolina. An injury in Afghanistan ends his career as an orthopedic surgeon, and when his grandfather dies under circumstances that never quite add up, Trevor inherits the man's rundown cabin and his beehives, and stays to fix both.
In town he meets Natalie Masterson, a deputy sheriff who is warm one day and unreachable the next, and Callie, a sullen teenager living at the local trailer park who may have been the last person to see his grandfather alive. Getting an answer out of either of them means understanding what they are protecting.
Nicholas Sparks writes the familiar coastal-Carolina register — grief, second chances, a romance shadowed by something withheld — alongside a quieter thread about recovery from trauma and the debts owed to the people who raised us.
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Characters
Trevor BensonProtagonist
An army doctor recovering from a wartime injury who returns to his grandfather's cabin.
Natalie MastersonProtagonist
A deputy sheriff in New Bern with a secret of her own.
CallieSupporting
A withdrawn teenager who may know how Trevor's grandfather died.
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The ReturnHardcover, Sep
368 pages
Grand Central PublishingISBN: 97815387285745 editions available
