Ronnie is devastated by this news, especially due to the fact that she did not speak to him for such a long time. On the day that the turtle eggs hatch, Ronnie discovers that her father is dying from stomach cancer. However, Will and Ronnie manage to forge ahead despite these difficulties. Will's friends resent Ronnie's presence in his life because of the time it takes him from them and Will's mother dislikes Ronnie. Will and Ronnie begin to see one another regularly. Ronnie shuts Will out, but later regrets her actions, asking for his forgiveness.

However, Ronnie begins to doubt herself and her trust in Will when a girl tells her that Will is a serial dater. Ronnie and Will spend an afternoon together after sharing guard duty over the turtle eggs. Will decides to spend the night sleeping with the turtle nest beside Ronnie in order to protect it before the cage can be placed. This volunteer, Will, is a local teenager Ronnie literally ran into on the beach her first day in North Carolina. Ronnie spends several nights sleeping beside the nest and harassing a volunteer at the local aquarium to place a cage over the nest to protect it. Ronnie becomes obsessed with the nest, frightened that a raccoon might attempt to eat the eggs before they emerge. Ronnie finds herself forced to turn to her father for support as she tries to get everyone to believe that she did nothing wrong.Ī short time later, Ronnie's father shows her a nest of turtle eggs. However, when Blaze's boyfriend, Marcus, makes a public pass on Ronnie, Blaze retaliates by setting Ronnie up for a shoplifting charge, her third in recent years. Ronnie makes a new friend in Blaze, a girl her age who is also struggling with parental issues. In the beginning, Ronnie spends as much time away from the house as possible. However, Ronnie finds herself forced to spend the summer with her father. For this reason, Ronnie has stopped playing the piano, a passion she and her father once shared, and has not spoken to her father for three years. Ronnie assumes that her father had an affair and this is what has caused him to abandon her, her mother, and her little brother, Jonah. Ronnie Miller is angry with her father for leaving the family without explanation. The Last Song is a novel of growth and maturity, but also a novel of love that takes the reader's breath away. Initially, Ronnie does all she can to avoid her father by hanging out with a new friend on the beach, but overtime Ronnie finds herself reconnecting with her father in a more meaningful way than she could ever have imagined. However, Ronnie finds herself forced to spend the entire summer at her father's home in North Carolina. In this novel, Ronnie Miller has spent the last three years not speaking to her father because of his decision to leave the family. The Last Song is a novel by bestselling author Nicholas Sparks.

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