Prologue and Chapters 1-4 Summary

The Last Song is Nicholas Sparks' thirteenth novel. Eight of his novels have vaulted to the number one spot on the New York Times' bestsellers list. This book was made into a movie starring Miley Cyrus.

In the Prologue, Ronnie is preparing for her father's funeral. Her mother comes into the room and asks her to tell her the story of her final months with her father. Ronnie thinks of when it all began and shows her mother a newspaper clipping of a news article about a church fire. Ronnie believes it all began with the fire.

In Chapter 1, Ronnie is in a car with her mother and her younger brother, Jonah. Ronnie is being forced to spend the summer with her father in North Carolina, a man she has not spoken to in three years because...