"Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed
in it once, too, back when she was eighteen." In the spring of 1984,
high school students Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole fell deeply, irrevocably in
love.
Though they were from opposite sides of the tracks, their love for one
another seemed to defy the realities of life in the small town of Oriental,
North Carolina. But as the summer of their senior year came to a close,
unforeseen events would tear the young couple apart, setting them on radically
divergent paths.
