The author of the runaway New York Times bestseller The Notebook pens a tale of self-discovery, renewal, and the courage it takes to love again the second time around.

A thirty-six-year-old single mother recovering from a wrecked marriage jogs along the shores of Cape Cod and finds a half-buried bottle containing a love letter. Upon reading the touching, heartfelt words a man had written to his "darling Catherine'' only three weeks earlier, she decides to take a dramatic leap that will change her life forever. As she boards a plane, her future is uncertain, yet brims with the promise of self-discovery and the possibility of finding the deepest kind of love.

NICHOLAS SPARKS is one of world's most beloved storytellers, an author with six #1 New York Times bestsellers and over 50 million copies of his books in print worldwide. All his books, including Three Weeks with My Brother, the memoir he wrote with his brother, Micah, have been New York Times and international bestsellers and were translated into more than forty languages. Three of Nicholas Sparks's novels— Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, and The Notebook — were also adapted into major motion pictures. He lives in North Carolina with his wife and family. You can visit him at www. nicholassparks.com and sign up for the Nicholas Sparks eNewsletter at www. HachetteBookGroupUSA.com.

KATHLEEN QUINLAN has numerous credits on stage, screen and television. Her feature film credits include Breakdown, Independence Day, Apollo 13, and The Hills Have Eyes.

BRUCE BOXLEITNER starred in the hit series Babylon 5. Other credits include the TV films Danielle Steel's Zoya and Gambler V: Playing for Keeps, and the long-running series Scarecrow and Mrs. King.