WARNING: Do not read this in public. Please also be ready with a box of tissues because Nights in Rodanthe is a tear-jerker. Nicholas Sparks always makes me cry.

Adrienne Willis is a 60-year-old divorced woman and a mother of three grown children. She retells her story—a flashback of love and redemption, loss and grief—out of concern for her widowed daughter who is going through depression after the death of her husband. This is a story that has resided in the deepest corner of her heart for 15 years: Two middle-aged people met by chance in the small North Carolina coastal town of Rodanthe.

Adrienne’s ex-husband had left her for a younger woman and to escape her despair, she loses herself into raising her children. She goes to Rodanthe to help her friend, Jean, to take care of her inn. It is there Adrienne meets with Paul Flanner. After Paul’s wife had left him and a patient died after his surgery, he sells his medical practice and tries to make amends to his past.

Despite the story being predictable and a tad unbelievable—in that two persons falling in love in just two days and experiencing life-changing moments—this book is highly readable. But then we are talking about love, right? Anything can happen when love strikes.