More than anything, this is a love story. But it's also the story of the inner workings of a family when the wife and mother falls into dementia. When her husband, who had been in the position of power, finds himself sidelined by powers beyond his control. And when their adult children are given the power to make decisions for their parents when no decision leads to happily ever after.

This novel began about ten years ago as journal entries that I wrote when my mother was diagnosed with dementia and later, Alzheimer's disease. She fought the symptoms with everything she had, but the...