The release date for the English version of 'The Rescue' by
Nicholas Sparks is Apr 2005. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Volunteer firefighter Taylor McAden feels forced to take enormous chances in the face of tragic accidents or roaring flames, but there's one leap of faith that Taylor can't bring himself to make: falling in love.
Nicholas Sparks is referred to the BookPage as "a modern master of fateful love stories," and he has become one of America's most cherished authors thanks to his incredible bestsellers, The Notebook, Message in a Bottle, and A Walk to Remember. Here, in his most recent piece, Sparks narrates a tale about making the biggest commitment of all: a lifetime of love.
The Reprieve
Volunteer firefighter Taylor McAden feels driven to take incredible risks—risks that no other member of the department would ever take—in order to rescue lives when faced with tragic accidents or raging flames. However, Taylor finds it difficult to make one leap of faith: falling in love. Taylor has spent his whole adult life looking for women who are in need of saving; he leaves these ladies as soon as their crisis passes and the connection begins to get really personal.
Then, one day, his little Southern town is struck by a violent, record-breaking storm. As she drives through it, young single mother Denise Holton's automobile goes off the road. She is accompanied by her four-year-old son, Kyle, who has significant learning impairments and for whom she has made all of her sacrifices. Unconscious and bleeding, Taylor McAden will find her—but not Kyle. And when she wakes up, it's evident to them both that Kyle has vanished.
The bond, the lifeline, between Taylor and Denise grows throughout the hunt for Kyle. Taylor is unaware that this rescue would be unlike any other and need much more than just guts. because it will open the door for him to maybe be saved from a life devoid of love. because doing so will need him opening doors to his past that suffering shut. That it would challenge him to love and live life to the fullest.
Nicholas Sparks uses his unique style to immerse us in the emotions and unexpected complexity of contemporary relationships in The Rescue, teaching us something about our own in the process.