BookPage calls Nicholas Sparks, "a modern master of fateful love stories," and his phenomenal bestsellers- The Notebook, Message in a Bottle, and A Walk to Remember- have made him one of America's most beloved storytellers. Here, in his newest work, Sparks tells a story about making the greatest commitment of all...loving someone forever.
The Rescue
When confronted by raging fires or deadly accidents, volunteer fireman Taylor McAden feels compelled to take terrifying risks - risks no one else in the department would ever take - to save lives. But there is one leap of faith Taylor can't bring himself to make: He can't fall in love. For all his adult years, Taylor has sought out women who need to be rescued, women he leaves as soon as their crisis is over, as soon as the relationship starts to become truly intimate.
Then, one day, a raging, record-breaking storm hits his small Southern town. Denise Holton, a young single mother, is driving through it when her car skids off the road. With her is her four-year-old son, Kyle, a boy with severe learning disabilities and for whom she has sacrificed everything. Unconscious and bleeding, she-but not Kyle-will be found by Taylor McAden. And when she wakes, the chilling truth becomes clear to both of them: Kyle is gone.
During the search for Kyle, the connection, the lifeline, between Taylor and Denise takes root. Taylor doesn't know that this rescue will be different from all the others, demanding far more than raw physical courage. That it will lead him to the possibility of his own rescue from a life lived without love. That it will require him to open doors to his past that were slammed shut by pain. That it will dare him to live life to the fullest by daring to love.
In The Rescue Nicholas Sparks weaves his inimitable spell, immersing us in the passions and the surprising complexities of modern relationships-and in doing so, teaching us something about our own.
Published: 2000
Publisher: Warner Books
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Series or Stand-Alone: Stand-Alone
Source: Owned
MY REVIEW
Just like with mostly all of the books written by Nicholas Sparks, I have read this book so many times now I know this story by heart but delving into this story one more time was wonderful.
The main part of the story is where we see Kyle disappear and there is then a search to find him. He is only a young child so it is more a race to get to find him before something bad happens to him.
What I loved the most was the relationships that build up between Denise and Taylor and between Taylor and Kyle. Kyle has severe learning disabilities so it does make it difficult if not impossible at times to form new relationships with new people he meets but quite quickly it appears that Kyle likes Taylor.
A truly wonderful story that contains the perfect amount of romance, drama and intrigue.
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