A Bend in the Road

 - By Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Sparks touches your heart and plays with your emotions. Bend in the road is not any different. It has love, affection, forgiveness, confession, guilt – all the factors that seem to make an emotional bomb and is let loose from the word go, to boom at the end.

Miles Ryan, a deputy Sheriff of North Carolina town of New Bern, and his wife Missy, were a happy couple until the destiny intervenes to change their lives irrevocably. Missy will be a fatality in a hit and run car accident and the case is closed unsolved. But Miles was unwilling to let it go and mounts his own futile investigation. On the doomed day of Missy’s death, his life seems to be void of spark and he seems to mourn his own life and if not for their son Jonah, his life would have held little meaning for him after the death of his high school sweet heart.

Jonah, after the untimely death of his mother had difficult time in his education and the other teachers, understanding his emotional state, just let him be, until Sarah came along as his second-grade teacher. Sarah Andrews moves to the quiet town of North Carolina to overcome the grief of a difficult divorce and finds solace and comfort as a second-grade teacher in that quiet town. She reaches out to Jonah, perhaps at the hurt in his eyes and probably to nurse her own emotional wounds, she eventually courts Miles Ryan, until fate intervenes, yet again, with a wicked bend in the road.

The rest of the journey is a battle of love, faith, forgiveness and as the master conjurer whips his magic of words, the readers are inevitably bound to the spell that would last until the gripping moment of the truth that links them casts its light at the most inopportune moment, to swirl their lives.

A good read for any readers who love romantic genre.