Book profile
The Best of Me
- Subgenre
- romance
- Edition year
- 2011
- Spice
- Heat not verified
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Amanda and Dawson's high-school love is constrained by class divisions and torn apart by unforeseen events. Twenty-five years later, they reunite in their small hometown after their mentor's funeral and must carry out his instructions, confronting painful memories and the truths behind the choices that shaped their lives.
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- Second Chance Romance: “Now, twenty-five years later, Amanda and Dawson are summoned back to Oriental for the funeral of Tuck Hostetler, the mentor who once gave shelter to their high school romance.” source
- Small Town Romance: “their love for one another seemed to defy the realities of life in the small town of Oriental, North Carolina.” source
- Forbidden Love: “Though they were from opposite sides of the tracks, their love for one another seemed to defy the realities of life in the small town of Oriental, North Carolina.” source
- Angst: “Forced to confront painful memories, the two former lovers will discover undeniable truths about the choices they have made.” source
- Coming of Age: “In the spring of 1984, high school students Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole fell deeply, irrevocably in love.” source
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