Counting Miracles: A Novel

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From the acclaimed writer of The Longest Trip and The Pocket book comes an emotional, highly effective novel about questioning if we are able to change—and even make our peace with—the trail we’ve taken.

“Sparks is great at what he does. The setting is postcard excellent. The characters are immensely likable. . . . It is a tidy miracle you possibly can rely on.”—The Washington Submit

Tanner Hughes was raised by his grandparents, following in his grandfather’s army footsteps to turn into an Military Ranger. His entire life has been spent overseas, and he’s the proverbial rolling stone: happiest when off on his subsequent journey, zero need to calm down. However when his grandmother passes away, her final phrases to him are discover the place you belong. She additionally drops a bombshell, telling him the identify of the daddy he by no means knew—and the place to seek out him.

Tanner is due at his subsequent posting quickly, however his curiosity is piqued, and he units out for Asheboro, North Carolina, to ask round. He’s been on the town lower than twenty-four hours when he meets Kaitlyn Cooper, a physician and single mother. They each really feel a direct connection; Tanner is aware of Kaitlyn has a narrative to inform, and he desires to listen to it. To Kaitlyn, Tanner is mysterious, thrilling—and presumably leaving in only a few weeks.

In the meantime, close by, eighty-three-year-old Jasper lives alone in a cabin bordering a nationwide forest. With solely his previous canine, Arlo, for firm, he lives quietly, haunted by a tragic accident that passed off many years earlier than. When he hears rumors {that a} white deer has been noticed within the forest—a creature of legend that impressed his father and grandfather—he turns into obsessive about defending the deer from poachers.

As these characters’ fates orbit nearer collectively, none of them is anticipating a miracle . . . however which may be precisely what’s about to change their futures perpetually.