Nicholas Sparks turns his unrivaled talents to a new tale about love found and lost, and the choices we hope we’ll never have to make.

Travis Parker has everything a man could want: a good job, loyal friends, even a waterfront home in small town North Carolina,he holds the vague conviction that a serious relationship with a woman would only cramp his style. That is, until Gabby Holland moves in next door. Spanning the eventful years of young love and family.

Travis Parker and Gabby Holland set off into an interesting journey of life as neighbors and then young lovers. Travis Parker is a happy man with wonderful friends, a great occupation and an enviable life. He thinks his life is already full of joy and happiness.

first comes love,

Gabby faces the decision of whether to choose a man whom she has known and loved for years, or a new love who sweeps her off her feet.

Travis was happy because he founded his real love.

Gabby couldn’t bear this situation, she moved the a new area to live with her father and her mother

Travis found out about her plan and go to catch her…

Then comes marriage..

Then comes they happy ever after..

But..

One evening, after a dinner to which Travis has failed to show due to a work emergency, Gabby drives back home but is involved in an accident with another car. She survives but is now in a coma, which seems permanent.

Travis wracked with guilt has to decide whether to take her off life support or not. A storm nearly destroys their house. One day, the shell chime starts to ring in the wind and Travis runs to the hospital where Gabby has wakened from her coma.

He takes her home where she is welcomed by the family and Travis gave his newborn child to his sister . To make up for missing their dinner date they have one in the front yard where she tells him she heard everything he said whilst in the coma.

The choice ultimately confronts us with the most heart wrenching question of all:

how far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?

Some choices can change everything.

Every moment of the rest of your life hangs on you.