Struggling to care for her sick dad and raise her teenage children alone, a divorced mother spends the weekend at a NEW YORK inn, only to meet up with a former surgeon working from his past.

Adrienne Willis is 45 and continues to be divorced for three years, abandoned by her hubby for a younger girl. The studies of increasing her teenage kids and caring for her ill father possess worn her down, but in the demand of a pal and in hopes of respite, she’s gone to the coastal town of Rodanthe in about Evenings in Rodanthe North Carolina to tend the local inn for the weekend. With a significant storm brewing, the time away doesn’t appear appealing…until a guest named Paul Flanner arrives.

At 54, Paul is a successful surgeon, however in the previous six months his life has unraveled into something he doesn’t recognize. Estranged from his son and lately divorced, he’s sold his practice and his home and has journeyed to this isolated town in hopes of closing a painful chapter in his previous. Adrienne and Paul come together as the storm brews over Rodanthe, but what starts between them over the weekend will resonate through the entire rest of their lives, intertwining previous and future, like and loss.