The Best of Me

Summary

Everyone wanted to believe that endless love waspossible. She’d believed in it once, too, back when she was eighteen.

In the spring of 1984, high school students Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole felldeeply, irrevocably in love. Though they were from opposite sides of thetracks, their love for one another seemed to defy the realities of life in thesmall town of Oriental, North Carolina. But as the summer of their senior yearcame to a close, unforeseen events would tear the young couple apart, settingthem on radically divergent paths.

Now, twenty-five years later, Amanda and Dawson are summoned back to Orientalfor the funeral of Tuck Hostetler, the mentor who once gave shelter to theirhigh school romance. Neither has lived the life they imagined—and neither canforget the passionate first love that forever changed their lives. As Amandaand Dawson carry out the instructions Tuck left behind for them, they realizethat everything they thought they knew—about Tuck, about themselves, and aboutthe dreams they held dear—was not as it seemed. Forced to confront painfulmemories, the two former lovers will discover undeniable truths about thechoices they have made. And in the course of a single, searing weekend, theywill ask of the living, and the dead: Can love truly rewrite the past?