Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

beautifully conveys the happiness of starting a new family while building to a really touching conclusion. This is a remarkable love tale that is both hopeful and painful.

It's a gripping and very emotional love tale about family, grief, new love, and hope written by James Patterson.

At last, Katie Wilkinson has met her ideal partner. He's a writer, a painter of houses, an innovator—every quality she's always dreamed of in a companion. However, one day he just vanishes from her life, leaving only a journal for her to peruse.

This journal is a letter of love that Suzanne, a new mother, wrote to her infant son Nicholas. She shares intimate details of how she and the boy's father met, her dreams of marriage and starting a family, and the unmatched happiness that a child has brought into her life. It becomes evident to Katie as she reads this heartfelt document that the husband and father of this young family is the lover who just broke up with her. She continues to read, trying to make sense of what has occurred and if her new love has any chance of surviving, while feeling both terrified and hopeful.

Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas, which builds to an intensely touching finale, masterfully portrays the delights of a new family and is written with James Patterson's trademark combination of passion and suspense. This is a remarkable love tale that is both hopeful and painful.