

The HEA ending is just perfect with an epilogue that brought the happiest tears to my eyes. Its well-written, riveting and heartfelt. LOVE LOVE LOVED this absolutely beautiful, unique and unforgettable story about survival and love. 5.5 stars!! (New review - edited after re-read) celebrates yet another birthday on the island, Anna begins to wonder if the biggest challenge of all might be living with a boy who is gradually becoming a man.

Their basic needs might be met but as the days turn to weeks, and then months, the castaways encounter plenty of other obstacles, including violent tropical storms, the many dangers lurking in the sea, and the possibility that T.J.'s cancer could return. just want to survive and they must work together to obtain water, food, fire, and shelter. Adrift in shark-infested waters, their life jackets keep them afloat until they make it to the shore of an uninhabited island. are en route to join T.J.'s family in the Maldives when the pilot of their seaplane suffers a fatal heart attack and crash-lands in the Indian Ocean. He's almost seventeen and if having cancer wasn't bad enough, now he has to spend his first summer in remission with his family-and a stack of overdue assignments-instead of his friends.Īnna and T.J. Callahan has no desire to leave town, not that anyone asked him. Callahan at his family's summer rental in the Maldives, she accepts without hesitation a working vacation on a tropical island trumps the library any day. celebrates yet another birthday on the island, Anna begins to wonder if the biggest challenge of all might be living with a boy who is gradually becoming a man.When thirty-year-old English teacher Anna Emerson is offered a job tutoring T.J. But as the days turn to weeks, and then months, the castaways encounter plenty of other obstacles, including violent tropical storms, the many dangers lurking in the sea, and the possibility that T.J.’s cancer could return. At first, their only thought is survival. They make it to shore, but soon discover that they’re stranded on an uninhabited island.

Their plane crashes in shark-infested waters. board a private plane headed to the Callahan’s summer home, and as they fly over the Maldives’ twelve hundred islands, the unthinkable happens. But his parents are insisting he spend the summer in the Maldives catching up on all the school he missed last year. His cancer is in remission and he wants to get back to his normal life. Worn down by the cold Chicago winters and a relationship that’s going nowhere, she jumps at the chance to spend the summer on a tropical island tutoring sixteen-year-old T.J. Anna Emerson is a thirty-year-old English teacher desperately in need of adventure. Two people stranded on an island struggle to surviveâ?and slowly fall in loveâ?in the runaway New York Times bestseller.
