He sets out on a journey across the country with his German shepherd, Zeus, to find her and eventually encounters Elizabeth 'Beth' Green, a divorced mother with a young son, Ben, in North Carolina.Ĭaught off guard by the attraction he feels, Thibault keeps the story of the photo and his luck a secret.

His best friend, Victor, seems to have an explanation for his good fortune: the photograph, his lucky charm.īack home in Colorado, Thibault begins to believe that the woman in the photo somehow holds the key to his destiny. He carries the photo in his pocket and soon wins a streak of poker games, then survives a battle that kills two of his closest buddies. Marine Logan Thibault finds a photograph of a smiling young woman half-buried in the dirt during his first deployment in the Iraq War. In the end, when writing The Lucky One, I wanted to explore the subject of fate or destiny, but in a way that reflected the reality of the world.' He adds, however, that he is 'a big believer in the fact that people have the ability to influence the future in a way that seems coincidental and when that happens, the feeling of fate or destiny is amplified. Despite the allusions to such themes made in the novel, Sparks admitted that he does not necessarily believe in either. The book deals with the themes of starcrossed fate and destiny. The Lucky One is a 2008 romance novel by American writer Nicholas Sparks.

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