It turns out to be a picture of Beth who is wearing a shirt that says Lucky Lady. It is then mentioned that Logan liked to go for early morning runs while in the Middle East and one day he came upon a picture half buried in the sand. He lost all of his money while doing this and eventually gave up joining in on the games. It is explained how Logan began to play Poker while tensions were building in the Middle East and this was his outlet. The story then goes back further into Logan's life as he reflects on his walking all the way from Colorado and even further back as to why he decided to join the Marines. The story also back tracks to Logan witnessing Keith taking the pictures and Logan taking the camera, destroying the disk, and slashing the tires of Keith's cruiser. He gives the camera (from which he removed the memory disk) to the college girls. When the story changes to Logan's perspective, he is in the car with the three college girls who picked him up when he indicated he wanted to hitch a ride. Keith becomes concerned as his father is the local Sheriff and his grandfather is a local judge. Keith goes back to find the camera he hid, but it is gone and the tires on his squad car are slashed. He asks Logan where he is going and states he is heading to Arden. However, after running a background check on Logan and Logan refusing to let him search his bags he lets Logan go.

Keith is concerned Logan saw everything that had happened and tries to find a way to take Logan in. He comes across a man whom Keith describes as looking like a hippie walking down a logging road by the beach with a dog. He hides the camera and talks with the girls about their breaking the law by nude bathing. One of them leaves the beach and comes upon Keith who is supposed to be on duty. He is carrying a camera he borrowed from the Police Department and is taking pictures of three female college students. He is at a location where local college students go for nude swimming. The book starts from Keith Clayton's perspective. 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.' Plot summary 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 novel was adapted into a 2012 film starring Zac Efron and Taylor Schilling. The novel follows from three different character perspectives: Keith Clayton, Elizabeth Green, and Logan Thibault. He and Beth begin a passionate love affair, but the secret of the photo soon threatens to tear them apart, and by continued interference in their lives by Beth's ex-husband, the town's Sheriff and son of town's most eminent person and businessman-destroying not only their deep and true passionate, romantic love but also their very lives. 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. The Lucky One is a 2008 romance novel by American writer Nicholas Sparks.

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