At sixteen, a pregnant Maggie is sent away by her parents to live with her Aunt Linda in Ocracoke, North Carolina. There, she meets Bryce Trickett
"I kept it waiting," Elias corrected. He opened the front cover.
If you are determined to find a free PDF but haven't had luck legally, or if your library waitlist is too long, consider reading one of Sparks’ older classics which are sometimes available in the public domain or via library apps with no wait:
Sophie picked up the paper. It was a receipt, dated October 14, 1974. It was blank, save for two words written in Elias’s youthful, bold script: The Wish.