
The Return
Grand Central Publishing · Print & ebook · September 29, 2020
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- Who it’s for
- A serious, social read with romance, time, and enough tenderness to talk about afterward.
- Genres
- Contemporary Romance, Small-Town Romance, Romantic Suspense
- Published
- Grand Central Publishing, September 29, 2020
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In the romantic tradition of Dear John, an injured Navy doctor meets two extremely important women whose secrets will change the course of his life in this #1 New York Times bestseller. Trevor Benson never intended to move back to New Bern, North Carolina. But when a mortar blast outside the hospital where he worked sent him home from Afghanistan with devastating injuries, the dilapidated cabin he'd inherited from his grandfather seemed as good a place to regroup as any.
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Tending to his grandfather's beloved beehives, Trevor isn't prepared to fall in love with a local . . . yet, from their very first encounter, Trevor feels a connection with deputy sheriff Natalie Masterson that he can't ignore. But even as she seems to reciprocate his feelings, she remains frustratingly distant, making Trevor wonder what she's hiding. Further complicating his stay in New Bern is the presence of a sullen teenage girl, Callie, who lives in the trailer park down the road. Trevor hopes Callie can shed light on the mysterious circumstances of his grandfather's death, but she offers few clues—until a crisis triggers a race to uncover the true nature of Callie's past, one more intertwined with the elderly man's passing than Trevor could ever have imagined. In his quest to unravel Natalie and Callie's secrets, Trevor will learn the true meaning of love and forgiveness . . . and that in life, to move forward, we must often return to the place where it all began.
Why It Clicks
A serious, social read with romance, time, and enough tenderness to talk about afterward.
Come here for
- book-club conversation
- second-chance romance
Expect
- prestige-leaning tone
- emotional payoff over complication
Where it sits
| Contemporary Romance | 73% |
|---|---|
| Romantic Suspense | 36% |
| Small-Town Romance | 31% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Contemporary Romance
- Marriage & Divorce
- Small-Town Fiction
- Authors
- Nicholas Sparks
- Publisher
- Grand Central Publishing
- Published
- September 29, 2020
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Contemporary Romance