Once high school sweethearts, a couple reunites to news that could devastate them or bring healing needed by their wounded souls. A powerful novel.

An old man reminisces about his first love, a young runaway who taught him more about life than anyone had before or since.

"When eighteen-year-old Tommy Baxter declares to his family that he wants to be a police officer after graduation, his mother, Reagan, won't hear of it. After all, she's still mourning the death of her own father on September 11 and she's determined to keep her son safe from danger. But Tommy's father, Luke, is proud of Tommy's decision. He would make a kind and compassionate cop. Meanwhile, Tommy is in love for the first time. His sweet relationship...