
SBF Presents an
Evening with Nicholas Sparks
Tuesday, October 14, 2025 – 6:00 PM Trustees Theater
Tickets:
$60 ticket includes pre-signed copy of REMAIN and a professional photograph with Nicholas Sparks
To purchase your ticket, please visit the SCAD Box Office through the following link: An Evening with Nicholas Sparks
Join SBF for a special evening with #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks as we celebrate the release of his newest novel, REMAIN: A Supernatural Love Story, co-created with internationally acclaimed director M. Night Shyamalan. A first-of-its-kind collaboration, REMAIN grapples with the supernatural mysteries of life, death, and human connection—an unprecedented collaboration between the globally acclaimed author of bestselling love stories like The Notebook and the renowned writer and director of blockbuster thrillers like The Sixth Sense.
The evening will include a conversation with Nicholas Sparks followed by audience Q&A and a photo meet and greet.
Tickets include event entry, a pre-signed copy of REMAIN, and one professional photo with Nicholas. REMAIN is releasing on the day of the event.
Please note the following:
- Nicholas will not be signing or personalizing books at the event.
- Pre-signed books are only available through advance purchase.
- No personal cameras or cell phone photography.
- No handshaking, please.
- A professional photographer will take one photo of each guest with Nicholas.
Accessing Your Photo:
- Event photos can be accessed by scanning a QR code sign using your cell phone. This sign will be clearly displayed at the event.
Tickets
- $60
- Event admission
- Pre-signed copy of REMAIN
- Photo with Nicholas Sparks
- Discounts for couples, students, and military are available by calling the SCAD Box Office at 912-525-5050
Tickets:
To purchase your ticket, please visit the SCAD Box Office through the following link: An Evening with Nicholas Sparks
We look forward to sharing this unforgettable evening with you!
REMAIN: A SUPERNATURAL LOVE STORY
By Nicholas Sparks with M. Night Shyamalan
When New York architect Tate Donovan arrives in Cape Cod to design his best friend’s summer home, he is hoping to make a fresh start. Recently discharged from an upscale psychiatric facility where he was treated for acute depression, he is still wrestling with the pain of losing his beloved sister. Sylvia’s deathbed revelation—that she can see spirits who are still tethered to the living world, a gift that runs in their family—sits uneasily with Tate, who struggles to believe in more than what reason can explain. But when he takes up residence at a historic bed-and-breakfast on the Cape, he encounters a beautiful young woman named Wren who will challenge every assumption he has about his logical and controlled world.
Tate and Wren find themselves forging an immediate connection, one that neither has ever experienced before. But Tate gradually discovers that below the surface of Wren’s idyllic small-town life, hatred, jealousy, and greed are festering, threatening their fragile relationship just as it begins to blossom. Tate realizes that in order to free Wren from an increasingly desperate fate, he will need to unearth the truth about her past before time runs out . . . a quest that will make him doubt whether we can ever believe the stories we tell about ourselves, and the laws that govern our existence. Love—while transformative—can sometimes be frightening.
A story about the power of transcendent emotion, Remain asks us all: Can love set us free not only from our greatest sorrows, but even from the boundaries of life and death?
About the SPARKS & SHYAMALAN Creative Collaboration:
REMAIN is a supernatural love story that bestselling novelist Nicholas Sparks co-created with two-time Academy Award nominee M. Night Shyamalan.
Shyamalan and Sparks are independently writing a screenplay and a novel, respectively, based on the same original love story.
Both projects will be based on the same concept and set of characters but tailored to their respective mediums. REMAIN, the novel, will be published in October 2025, and REMAIN, the film starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Phoebe Dynevor, is slated for theatrical release in October 2026.
Events
The four-day Savannah Book Festival centers around three main components: three ticketed Headliner Events, free Festival Saturday, and our renowned SBF@Schools program. Drawing over 9,000 attendees annually, SBF strives to promotes reading, writing and civil conversation within each unique event. Read below to learn more about SBF offerings and how you can get involved for the 2026 Festival!
Headliner Events
Headliner Addresses are ticketed events presented in the Lucas Theater in Downtown Savannah. Headliners give a 45-minute presentation on their creative process and life as a writer, followed by a Q&A and book signing. The lineup for the 2025 Festival consisted of Anna Quindlen to provide the Opening Address, Sebastian Junger to provide the Keynote Address, and Ben Mezrich to deliver the Closing Address.
Festival Saturday
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