True Believer

Plot:
Jeremy Marsh is the ultimate New Yorker: handsome, almost always dressed in black, and part of the media elite. An expert on debunking the supernatural with a regular column in "Scientific American," he's just made his first appearance on national TV. When he receives a letter from the tiny town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, about ghostly lights that appear in a legend-shrouded cemetery, he can't resist driving down to investigate. Here, in this tightly knit community, Lexie Darnell runs the town's library, just as her mother did before the accident that left Lexie an orphan. Disappointed by past relationships, including one that lured her away from home, she is sure of one thing: her future is in Boone Creek, close to her grandmother and all the other people she loves. Jeremy expects to spend a quick week in "the sticks" before speeding back to the city. But from the moment he sets eyes on Lexie, he is intrigued and attracted to this beautiful woman who speaks with a soft drawl and confounding honesty. And Lexie, while hesitating to trust this outsider, finds herself thinking of Jeremy more than she cares to admit. Now, if they are to be together, Jeremy Marsh must make a difficult choice: return to the life he knows, or do something he's never done before--take a giant leap of faith. A story about taking chances and following your heart, True Believer will make you, too, believe in the miracle of love.

My Opinion:

Jeremy was married, once with a woman, before meeting Lexie. Both of them admited that they weren't in love, it was just a relationship that could work, seeing that the couple wanted plenty of kids (Jeremy was from a big family).
The relationship seemed to be working perfectly, untill the day that Jeremy found out that he  couldn't have kids. So, it appears that the ultimate New Yorker was a defected product.
Meanwhile, Jeremy enfolded himself in many projects around the state, and pushed himself away, little by little, from his wife. After knowing that Mary (Jeremy's wife) couldn't get pregnant, she packed her bags and returned to her mother's house, leaving Jeremy with the divorce papers to sign.
No one knew about this piece of his past, until he decided to tell it to Lexie.

I have to say that my favourite character is Lexie's grandmother, Doris. She has been like a mother to Lexie, since her parents died in a car accident. She was the trigger for all this story to begin. She was the one who called Jeremy's agent suggesting him to unfold the ghosts myths at the South. She was the one who encouraged Lexie to give Jeremy a second chance, when everything seemed to be falling apart.
And as if her personality was a contagious disease, Jeremy started to release himself from the webs that were holding him to reason and Lexie opened her herself to the strange city man, giving him an opportunity in her life.
It's an amazing book, where Science and the Unexplainable are joined together (where those words represent two persons: Jeremy and Lexie).
And just like this, a simple trip to the South became an adventurous challenge, with secrets being revealed, relationships being put to test and second chances being giving to TRUE BELIEVERS.
Now I leave you, my dear readers, with a small piece of the book:
"There was science and then there was the unexplainable, and Jeremy has spend his life trying to reconcile the two. He dwelt in reality, scoffed at magic, and felt pity for the true believers. But as he gazed at Lexie, trying to make sense of what sha was telling him, he found his old sense of surety slipping.
No, he couldn't explain it, and in the future, he never would. It defied the laws of biology, it shattered his assumptions about the man he knew himself to be. Quite simply, it was impossible, with sudden, euphoric certainty the words he never thought he would hear. 'Here's our miracle,' she whispered. 'It's a girl'."

The second book is At First Sight, the sequel to True Believer

* Books of Nicholas Sparks to read:
1) The Notebook;
2) Nights in Rodanthe;
3) The Best of Me.