Message in a Bottle

Nicholas Sparks · first published 1998 · ISBN 9780446523561

A woman discovers a sealed bottle containing a love letter from a stranger washed ashore on a North Carolina beach. Moved by the raw emotion of the letter, she tracks down its author and discovers a widowed boat restorer grieving the loss of his wife. Their connection awakens both of them to the possibility of love again, but he is still anchored to the past.