Shin and PiperRae Roosevelt enjoy the smooth, straight-shot road to happiness, success, and the good life. He's the co-founder of a reputable mechanical engineering and design firm; she's earned a fine reputation as an art and mirror restoration expert. Then, everything familiar changes and suddenly smooth and straight-away are distant memories and switchbacks are the new reality. Orange City IA beckons this San Luis Obispo CA couple . . . but will a calmer lifestyle solve the problems of a disrupted marriage?

Does one, can one ever forget . . . dismiss . . . disdain the life-changing, mind-boggling, heart-blasting impact of a first love? Memories of it may flounder in the fog of passing years, or be consumed by the blaze of more persistent, lasting love. Whether it was ecstasy or agony, does a first love ever lose its power? Does sunlight truly obliterate fog, or does it merely push it aside until it is merely the shadows? Renita Vander Voon never expected to be asking these questions, but then her first-love reappeared. That's when she realizes that fog obscures all but what is most important:...