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When confronted by raging fires or deadly accidents, volunteer fireman Taylor McAden feels compelled to take terrifying risks - risks no one else in the department would ever take - to save lives. But there is one leap of faith Taylor can't bring himself to make: He can't fall in love. For all his adult years, Taylor has sought out women who need to be rescued, women he leaves as soon as their crisis is over, as soon as the relationship starts to become truly intimate.
Then, one day, a raging, record-breaking storm hits his small Southern town. Denise Holton, a young single mother, is driving through it when her car skids off the road. With her is her four-year-old son, Kyle, a boy with severe learning disabilities and for whom she has sacrificed everything. Unconscious and bleeding, she-but not Kyle-will be found by Taylor McAden. And when she wakes, the chilling truth becomes clear to both of them: Kyle is gone.
During the search for Kyle, the connection, the lifeline, between Taylor and Denise takes root. Taylor doesn't know that this rescue will be different from all the others, demanding far more than raw physical courage. That it will lead him to the possibility of his own rescue from a life lived without love. That it will require him to open doors to his past that were slammed shut by pain. That it will dare him to live life to the fullest by daring to love. ( )

The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks is the touching story of a single mom devoted to her special needs preschooler, determined to help him adapt to the world, though he seems unable to communicate. When she meets a kind man who serves as a volunteer fireman, who actually seems to care not just for her, but also her complicated young son, her world seems to open up for the better, but is it too good to be true? Relationships get complicated and emotions run high, and as the characters shed tears of both joy and despair, so are the readers brought to tears as well. A beautiful story. ( )

Taylor McAden é voluntário do corpo de bombeiros da pequena Edenton. Destemido a ponto de parecer imprudente, enfrenta incêndios, participa de salvamentos, desafia a morte sem hesitar. Mas uma coisa ele não tem coragem de fazer: entregar seu ­coração.

Por toda a vida ele se envolveu com mulheres que estavam mais em busca de apoio que de amor – e sempre se afastava delas assim que o relacionamento começava a ficar sério.

Numa noite de tempestade, enquanto sinalizava postes de energia caídos, Taylor encontra um carro batido na beira da estrada. Assim que recobra os sentidos, Denise, a motorista, pergunta pelo filho. Mas Kyle, um menino de 4 anos que tem problemas de audição e de fala, não está em sua cadeirinha no banco traseiro.

Durante a busca pelo garoto, Denise se surpreende ao ver que está diante de um homem capaz de abrir mão da própria vida para salvar uma criança. E o que Taylor nem imagina é que esse resgate será muito diferente de todos os que já fez, pois exigirá mais do que coragem e força física – e talvez possa levá-lo à própria salvação.

O resgate é um livro arrebatador sobre sentimentos que abrem portas fechadas pela tristeza e sobre vidas que são transformadas quando se tem a ousadia de amar.

I loved this book so much. It’s been so long since I’ve read a Nicholas Sparks book. The entire time I could see a movie going through my head as I read it. ( )