Jennifer's life has recently shifted completely when she receives news that her grandmother Samantha was injured during a fall and is now in a coma. Jennifer races back to the small, lake-side town in which she grew up.

As Jennifer deals with regular visits with her grandmother and settles back into life in the community, she also gets a chance to get to know a little bit more about her grandmother. This is because of a series of letters that Jennifer finds in Sam's house. They are addressed to her, and share with Jennifer the decades-long love story Sam lived in secret. Sam's hope is that Jennifer will learn how important it is to make the time for love so you can recognize it and experience it to the fullest before it is lost.

This lesson comes at an appropriate time since Jennifer is reconnecting with a childhood friend named Brendan. He is a doctor that has given up his practice to come back home for the summer. They quickly rekindle their friendship and find that it has developed into something more. It seem like fate brought them together, and it is just in time.

This is another of Patterson's romance/sad books that would do Nicholas Sparks proud. I enjoyed Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas more. I think it is because it seemed to be less rife with overly clichéd attempts at tearing at the heartstrings that are evident in this book. It was an enjoyable story, but it was a little overdone. With that said, it still gave me the sniffles from time to time.