A love story that recounts the effects of a single evening's rendezvous on the lives of two former lovers who have been separated for more than twenty years.Upon learning that he is dying, the novel's hero, Michael Fitzgerald, must battle not only time but the troubling ghosts of his own past in order to resolve the single area of his life that he feels remains unfinished. To achieve this, he must journey to a small town in remote Nebraska to meet with Cassie Cutler, a woman with whom he had an unconsummated love affair in his younger years. Invited to her home for dinner, Michael meets her very likable husband and her very needy daughter. During the course of their evening together, Michael and Cassie examine their mutual past and the intense sexual attraction they still feel for each other. Ultimately the reader will learn of the horrible incident that lead to the parting of these two, a brutal confrontation that both have attempted to keep buried through all the years of their separation.In the early morning when Michael finally leaves, the two protagonists are profoundly changed. Michael is ready to accept the inescapable fact of his impending death and Cassie is finally able to come to terms the emptiness she has been experiencing all her adult life.
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