True Believer by Nicholas Sparks

True Believer By Nicholas Sparks 

The book begins with Jeremy Marsh as an audience member on a TV talk show.

It turns out that Jeremy is an investigative journalist, writing for Scientific America magazine. He's about to expose this nationally known clairvoyant on TV.

Next however, Jeremy is heading off to North Carolina. He received a letter from Doris, a resident of Boone Creek. The letter tells about a phenomenon at the local cemetery where mysterious lights are appearing from the tombstones. The townspeople are convinced these lights are ghosts.

Jeremy meets with Doris, owner of the small town's busy restaurant. She's a older woman and comes from a long line of psychics. Her mother could read minds and Doris is a diviner, someone who can find water before digging a well. Her main talent though is predicting the sex of babies for pregnant mothers,just by holding the mother's hand.

Doris explains to Jeremy about a legend of the graveyard,

how a curse was placed on it and the ghosts of former slaves buried there are haunting it.

Jeremy wants to learn more and Doris suggests going to the library to learn the history of the place. She tells him to ask for Lex.

Lex turns out to be Doris' granddaughter.

Lexie's parents died in a horrible automobile accident when she was very young - Doris raised her. As Jeremy does his investigating, with Lexie's help, we learn a little about each others past - the most important being that Jeremy was very happily married years earlier. His wife was perfect. They had both very much wanted to have many kids but it turns out that Jeremy was infertile. His wife divorced him because of this. Lexie is starting to worry that she and Jeremy are getting too close so she packs up and leaves for a few days. By the time she gets back she hopes that Jeremy will be gone. Jeremy must be with her and figures out that she's at an old beach house, where her parents were married. He meets her there and she realizes that she is falling in love with him. They make love and spaghetti. Jeremy is convinced he knows what is causing the lights. He is also sure that Lexie and Doris know as well. Will their relationship work out or disappear like a ghost? And will he find out the real reason where the lights are coming from? 

I really liked this book, it was strange in a good way with a little romance. I loved how the author incorporated science into the plot. I have been always curious about physics and if what they do is the real thing or not. I also felt like I related to Lexie. She is a passionate and honest person but she also runs away from the things that mean the world to her. This book does talk about mature themes like sex but this book can be read by people the ages 14 and up. I give this novel 3 stars and a half.