Garret has lost his wife Catherine and sent her messages in a bottle thrown into the sea. Teresa finds one of the bottles on the shore and is so touched by the letter she has to find the person who wrote it. She finds Garret and falls in love. But she doesn't tell him about the bottle and he finds it when he goes to visit her in Chicago. Garret is torn between the love he has for Teresa and the love he will always feel for Catherine. He takes "Catherine" the ship he has built out for a test sail and discovers a family in distress. He saves the husband and child but drowns trying to save the wife. This is the story of love lost and found then lost again. The story is set in the Outer Banks. But this story has no boundaries.
by Nicholas Sparks
