When confronted by raging fires or
deadly accidents, volunteer fireman
Taylor McAden feels compelled to
take terrifying risks-risks no one
else in the department would ever
take-to save lives. But there is
one leap of faith Taylor can't bring
himself to make: He can't fall in
love. For all his adult years,
Taylor has sought out women who need
to be rescued, women he leaves as
soon as their crisis is over, as
soon as the relationship starts to
become truly intimate.
Then one day, a raging, record-
breaking storm hits his small
Southern town. Denise Holton, a
young single mother, is driving
through it when her car skids off
the road. With her is her four-year-
old son, Kyle, a boy with severe
learning disabilitites and for
whom she has sacrificed everything.
Unconscious and bleeding, she-but
not Kyle-will be found by Taylor
McAden. And when she wakes, the
chilling truth becomes clear to
both of them: Kyle is gone.
During the search for Kyle, the
connection, the lifeline, between
Taylor and Denise takes root. Taylor
doesn't know that this rescue will
be different from all the others,
demanding far more than raw
physical courage. That it will
lead him to the possibility of
his own rescue from a life lived
without love. That it will require
him to open doors to his past that
were slammed shut by pain. That it
will dare him to live life to the
fullest by daring to love.

Any book written my Nicholas Sparks is an excellant read