This is my favorite Nicolas Sparks book, and I love it so much I am deciding to reread it. The beginning starts out with Theresa, the main character who is a journalist, jogging on the beach. She is thinking about the next column she is going to write when she happens upon a bottle from sea. Inside the bottle is a hand written love letter. She is so moved and touched by this heart filled letter that she was persuaded to put it in her column. She wants to find the man who wrote these letters to see if the words he writes display his actual personality. She later comes to find out that the mystery man has written other letters as well.