John Tyree is a loner. Abandoned by his mother when he was an infant, he was raised by his father, a man devoted to routine and coin collecting. A passion instilled in him by his father, John's grandfather, he's tried to ignite the same fire in John. And it works, for awhile. But as John grows into his teen years, he's had his fill of weekends taken up by coin shows instead of hanging out with his friends. His rebellion grows as he moves through high school, creating a chasm that may never be breached. After graduation, he bounces from one job to another. At twenty, he becomes tired of his dead-end life and joins the army.
That decision changes his life in more than the obvious ways. In the summer of 2000, he's at home while on leave. He's hanging out on the beach, alone, after a day of surfing. Night is falling, but the full moon hasn't risen. Two college coeds walk past him; the blond ignores his greeting, but the brunette responds. He watches as the brunette puts her bag on the pier railing. They are joined by two frat boys, one of which knocks the bag and all of its contents into the ocean. When neither of the college boys makes a move to retrieve it, John jumps in and a relationship begins.
Savannah Lynn Curtis is staying at a house on Wrightsville Beach with a group of college students. They are in the area for a month, working with Habitat for Humanity. Before the evening is out, John spends several hours getting to know Savannah and first thing tomorrow, he's giving her a surfing lesson.
John spends most of his leave with Savannah. By the time he must return, his life has changed yet again. Savannah is his soul mate and they have planned to marry when John's enlistment is up. But one hundred days before discharge comes September 11, 2001 and John must choose between going through with his discharge or re-enlisting to fight in the coming war. If he chooses to re-enlist, will Savannah wait?
Dear John is a moving story about a man and a woman devoted to each other and how the choices of one permanently alters the future of the other. Both make choices with lifelong consequences, decisions that can't be undone. Dear John is a story of self-sacrifice and denial, of one man placing the happiness of his one true love ahead of his own. 
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