Publisher's Synopsis
A love story: Jackie Riley and Joanie Callahan were teenage sweethearts at Gillingham High School from 1955-through 1957 and the first two years of college. Forty-three years later, Jackie is on the verge of publishing his first novel, when he stumbles upon the Classmates.com website and discovers that, like himself, Joanie is into her second marriage and living just over the New Hampshire/Maine line, only a few hours from his home in Massachusetts. Joanie (a school teacher) sends her first emails to Jackie from her school computer and it all flows from that beginning. There is mutual enticement pleasure and delight as they bathe in the comfort and unrestrained intimacy they have discovered once again. Their physical desires build rapidly, but getting to know each other anew under the weight of the vastly different lives they have led, is a much slower and complex process, beset with all sorts of obstacles. They meet several times that first year and into the second year continue to meet and communicate through Instant Messaging until reality sets in and they are forced to contend with the deeper issues of duty/loyalty, different religious, political and philosophical outlooks, and a plethora of other conflicting habits, values and views. As they begin to contemplate the ultimate consequences of their relationship, they must make choices that will either tear them apart or lead them to a new direction that neither of them had anticipated or even dreamt was possible. A monumental decision is made and the reader is left to decide whether or not it is the wisest one for both, or one of them.
