The Rescue Paperback – January 1, 2000 by Nicholas Sparks
 
Volunteer fireman Taylor McAden is driven to take terrifying, heroic risks to saves lives. But there is one leap he can not bring himself to He can't fall in love. A man who likes to rescue troubled women, he inevitably leaves them as soon as they want more from him. Then one day a record breaking storm hits his small southern town and he comes across a single mother in a wrecked car. He finds himself looking for her missing son - and involved in a rescue different from all others. This one will require him to open doors to his past slammed shut by pain.
 
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