Summary:
How can the man
Andi loved and shared her life with for last twenty-five years no longer
care for her? Faced with the difficult decision of staying in or leaving
her marriage, what will Andi choose?
Excerpt: "Andi drove
away from the house, watching it recede in the rearview mirror. The
Christmas lights her husband, Ross, had recently hung dangled from the
eaves and the driveway was cleared of last night's heavy Wyoming
snowstorm. This was the home she had lived in for a large portion of her
life, the home into which she had poured so much of her heart and soul.
Yet Andi didn't
know where she was going as she sped down the winding drive, only that
she had to get away.
Life with Ross
had become too painful.
As she turned
onto the main road then rounded the bend in the road, she could still
see the smoke rising out of the chimney from the fireplace they had
saved for months to build. The river rock surrounding the fireplace
alone had cost a bundle but it hadn't mattered for the house had always
been warm.
It was lately
that hearts had grown cold..." |