Noah Calhoun and Allie Nelson met in the small
North Carolina coastal town of New Bern in the summer of 1932. Allie's well-to-do
parents were vacationing there and while they didn't approve of Noah or the fledgling romance, assumed that Allie would move on and forget about Noah after they returned home.
October 1946, finds Noah back home in New Bern after the war, restoring an historical old
plantation house and remembering back to happier times and lost loves.
Allie is engaged to a wealthy lawyer, and busily planning her wedding in October 1946, when she comes across an article in the newspaper about an historical old plantation being restored by the new owner. Under the guise of antique shopping for her new home, Allie travels alone to New Bern, to face the past and bury old flames.
Over a few days in 1946, Allie and Noah find they are unable to extinguish the flame of love that started burning 14 years earlier and also that they are once again faced with the choice of be together no matter the repercussions or forever separate taking only their memories.
This is the story of true love at its best...and worst. A story of love, of loss, of the inherent cruelty associated with growing older, and of true love's valiant triumph over all, if only for a little while...over and over again. For anyone touched by true love, this book is a must read.