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Katie, a mysterious woman came in Southport and took a job at a small restaurant as a waitress.She don't speak much to anyone,she doesn't have friends or family to hung out with.She's not socially active.It's just between work and home.She would drop at a grocery store nearby on her way home. Alex,the store owner can't help but notice how reserved she is.She don't talk to anyone and she bought the same thing everyday. Katie worked hard and save harder so after months of working ,she was able to buy an old house.To her,that was her greatest accomplishment.She was able to buy a place all by her own. She was visited one day by her neighbor who introduced herself as JO.Jo has her own secrets but she seems peaceful inside.Surprisingly,she likes her and they became good friends.She visited her from time to time,shared dinner and drink wine together til midnight.They would talk about people,Southport history and work.But one day,Jo asked her about her previous life.she was dumbfounded.She was wrestling in her mind whether she tell her secret or not.It's just that it still pained her and those memories are scary.But she has been wanting this.To pour out her story to someone she trusted.So the next thing she knew,she was pouring her painful past to Jo as she stood their listening attentively to her as she reveals her painful disastrous past. Back in New England,she was married to a well to do an inspector officer named Kevin.To the eyes of the public,they seem to be a perfect couple.They seem happy and in love.Make love,eat dinner together.Attend parties together but unknown to many,those are just public displays.She was young and beautiful and manipulated.She was abused ,spank at little mistakes committed.She tried her best to please Kevin. One day,she carefully planned her escape.She did it once but Kevin found her and beaten her badly till she can't even move her body.So this time,she need money to go miles away in New England.She's so scared and had been brutally beaten a lot but she can't tell anyone because his husband represents the law.She promised herself,she has to endure another year so she can save as much as she needed to stay away from her evil husband. She stole coins or money left on his husband's pocket and hid it under the sink so his husband will not find out her secret.Her husband never give her money,so she tried to keep every single penny found on their room. After a year or so,she thinks she's got enough to plan her escape.Next thing she needs is a secret identity.When Katie,a close from from the neighborhood died she paid them a comfort visit but at the same time had intruded Katie's room and stole her information.She felt so guilty and ashamed from betraying them and she has no idea if they can forgive her for what she did but its the only for her to escape from her husband. Kevin has an out of town assignment and he'd be gone for one week so Katie find a perfect time to escape.She searched for the mobile phone she bought months ago and had all the incoming calls forwarded to her mobile so she can still pick up the phone since Kevin was checking on her from time to time. She kept running,and never looked back til she reached Philadelphia.Tried to get a job but can't en cash her cheque during paydays because she doesn't have any valid identification card. One day, she saw Kevin's car parked outside the hotel where she's staying.Kevin is an investigator and he's smart enough and figured out where she's headed.She quickly grabbed her stuff and fled off.She don't know where to but she just rode a bus and travel as far as she can til she reached Southport.Where she tried living a new person. Kevin was so furious when she came home and found Katie gone.It made him almost crazy and mad.He tried all his best that no one finds out Katie left him so he invented a perfect lie for it.He promised to find her whatever happens.As much as he needed her,he badly wanted to kill her out of rage.Memories kept on clouding him.He believes he is a perfect husband,a good provider,a passionate lover and he can't understand why she fled and its ruining him.He almost got insane.The house is in a total mess.No one's cleaning it,no one's cooking him breakfast and dinner,he got mad all the more.He won't stop searching for her,she's his wife and she had to come back.Kevin got fired as well because he is not doing his job anymore.He spent most of his time drinking so he got stomach pains. Katie was on the grocery one day when Alex's daughter showed Katie her drawing.Alex noticed she's natural with kids and seems that her daughter found a new friend and he secretly admired her all the more.Every time she drops by for a grocery,his daughter would drop of everything she's doing and would run to Katie for a big hug.They were like mother and daughter and Alex was so grateful to have someone who can at least give moments for her daughter.So one day,Alex introduced himself to her making a small talk since she don't normally speaks to anyone.They were enjoying a short chitchat when Katie saw on the shop monitor that Alex son fell on the water while fishing.Alex went for a rescue while Katie look after his daughter.Starting that they they became good friends.Sometimes they would go together on a picnic during weekends.Sometimes,Katie would spend time with the kids like one happy family.For the first time,Alex felt love again.He had been reserved for almost 8 years and had never loved anyone after his wife died.But when he met Katie,his heart was being opened. He was happily married to Carly,had two great and wonderful kids but after 8 wonderful years together,she died out of illness.Alex is a loving,dedicated and very supportive husband. Back in Dorchester,Kevin finally found out the mystery of his wife's disappearance when he had a chat with their neighbor.He phoned a detective friend to have a background check under Katie's name and found out that there's a driver's license registered in SOuthport.He put a wicked smile like a villain who solved a mystery,Kevin was on his way to Southport in search of his wife Erin. Alex and Katie's friendship grew deeper.His kids love her and that made Alex happier.He is a very good man.Gentle and committed.In spite of her happy days with Alex,there were still nights of nightmare.She dream of Kevin finding her.Just like last night,she thought she saw Kevin at the carnival when she was with Alex and the kids on one of those rides,she looked down and saw Kevin staring angrily at her.Alex thought she might be hallucinating. But she was right,Kevin was already in Southport ,in fact he was there while they were in town.He knew where she lived and he even invaded her privacy. That night,Katie has to stay with the kids because Alex has to fetch her sister from the airport.Right after Alex left,Kevin bought gallons of gasoline from his shop and had set the house on fire with Katie and the kids are inside.Katie was able to escape through the back window.Kevin spotted her so struggling with stomach pain,drunkenness and sanity he headed towards her.She instructed the kids to run away while she fought Kevin. all the years of being timid in the past,she fiercely fought him back.clawed his face and fled.Kevin ran after her.Alex arrived and saw the last piece of his house being burned.He instructed his kids to stay inside Katie's house and wait for him till he comes back. He searched for Katie and saw her running away from Kevin who's struggling to catch her.Alex asked her to hop on his car and they fled.Katie was so sorry for everything that happened.But Alex doesn't care.What matters to him is she's safe. They happily hugged each other on the front porch unaware that Kevin followed them.He gave Alex a hard blow on the head which made him unconscious and stayed in the hospital for weeks.He pointed his gun to Katie but she fought back.Katie was stronger than Kevin now because he hadn't eaten anything in days.He just drank too much.There was a loud bang,and Kevin was dead. That evening was so traumatizing but she felt somehow free now.Kevin is gone and she feel free at last. Alex was confined for days at the hospital recovering from head injury.She took care of him until he healed and was ready to go home. Katie decided to visit Jo since she didn't show up in weeks now.She wanted to talk to someone.She went to visit her in her house because she was never invited there.She kept on knocking but no one was answering.she noticed one of the windows was open so she passed through it.She was surprised to find the room full of dust and cobwebs.It just means,no ones live there in years and that scared and puzzled her all at the same time.She roam around the room,but no one seemed to live their. She noticed a letter sitting on the table.She can't help but open it.And the letter and it was address for her.Another secret revealed,it was from Alex's wife Carly.At the end of the letter,she introduced herself as Jo.just like how here friends called her. Was she hallucinating? Is it all part of her unconscious mind?Did she had an imaginary friend? She don't know how everything happened.One thing she know,she's happy that somehow Alex's wife seem to like her.She seems like she knew she will come in Southport and met him.She knew she's like an angel who guided her,to a man who can't hurt her.To a man who can love her so much.She indeed find her place of Safe Haven in Southport.She found her safe haven in Alex's heart.In the hugs and embraces of his kids. Even if everything is an illusion or a figment of her imagination,she's happy she was safe now.Indeed a Safe Haven in a small town where she can be safe! A town surrounded by angels! REVIEW Another amazing book by Nicolas Sparks.Heart warming and I'm drawn all the more to his writing styles.I don't by books by titles or popularity or public demand.I by books based on my favorite authors.Nicolas Sparks is my favorite romance author who got me captivated each time. In this book,he uplift the morality and the worth of a woman.That gone are the days when woman are treated as slaves by men.He somehow emphasized that a woman deserves to be loved and be happy.A woman can fight abusive men.A woman is designed by God to be man's partner and not slave. This might speak for a lot of woman world wide being abused.That as a woman,we can fight as a woman.We deserved to love and be loved.
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