Two annoying people with nothing in common except sex make a series of annoying decisions until one of them dies. This was my first Sparks novel, and it will likely be my last. He didn't make me like either of the main characters. He filled the book with redundant descriptions of how deeply they cared for each other. Nothing even happened until the storm at the end, in which Garrett's last thought was that, since he was out boating in a storm, he should have been wearing a life jacket and had his survival kit handy.