Sparks, Nicholas  
  
  
    Hope Anderson is at a crossroads. At thirty-six
 she's been dating her boyfriend
 an orthopedic surgeon
 for six years. With no wedding plans in sight
 and her father recently diagnosed with ALS
 she decides to use a week at her family's cottage in Sunset Beach
 North Carolina
 to ready the house for sale and mull over some difficult decisions about her future.Tru Walls has never visited North Carolina but is summoned to Sunset Beach by a letter from a man claiming to be his father. A safari guide
 born and raised in Zimbabwe
 Tru hopes to unravel some of the mysteries surrounding his mother's early life and recapture memories lost with her death. When the two strangers cross paths
 their connection is as electric as it is unfathomable...but in the immersive days that follow
 their feelings for each other will give way to choices that pit family duty against personal happiness in devastating ways.