I recently joined a book club and our first author we are focusing on is Nicholas Sparks.  Have you read anything by him?
Nicholas Sparks
Nicholas Charles Sparks (born December 31, 1965) is an American romance novelist and screenwriter. He has published twenty novels and two non-fiction books. Several of his novels have become international bestsellers, and eleven of his romantic-drama novels have been adapted to film all with multimillion-dollar box office grosses. His novels feature stories of tragic love with happy endings and Christian values.
Sparks was born in Omaha, Nebraska and wrote his first novel, "The Passing", in 1985,
sweet retirement. In the evenings I shall read to you while you work your cross-stitch in the firelight. And then we shall go to bed, our bed, my dearest girl. . . . The "him" referred to in the letter is apparently Helen's husband, James Stevenson.
Later in the book, the author writes of Sophie's impressions on seeing Amy Travers and another woman, Lydia Swerdlow, with their arms around each other: The women who embraced in the wagon were Adam and Eve