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Audie Award Champion, Romance, 2014 Ira Levinson is in big trouble. At 91 yrs . old, in illness and alone on the planet, he finds himself stranded with an isolated embankment after a car crash. Battling multiple accidental injuries, he challenges to retain awareness until a blurry image materializes and makes target beside him: his beloved better half Ruth, who passed on nine years back. Urging him to hold on, she forces him to stay alert by recounting the stories of their life-time together - that they met, the precious paintings they gathered mutually, the dark days of WWII and its influence on them and their own families. Ira recognizes that Ruth can't possibly be in the car with him, but he clings to her words and his remembrances, reliving the sorrows and day-to-day joys that described their marriage. A few miles away, at an area rodeo, a Wake Forest College or university senior's life is going to change. Dealing with a recently available break-up, Sophia Danko fits a cowboy known as Luke, who bears little resemblance to the privileged frat boys she has experienced at institution. Through Luke, Sophia is unveiled to a world where the stakes of survival and success, wreck and prize - even life and loss of life - loom large in everyday routine. As she and Luke land in love, Sophia locates herself imagining a future far removed from her strategies - a future that Luke gets the power to rewrite... if the secret he's keeping doesn't kill it first. Ira and Ruth. Sophia and Luke. Two lovers who have little in common, and who are separated by years and experience. Yet their lives will converge with unpredicted poignancy, reminding us all that even the most challenging decisions can deliver extraordinary journeys: beyond despair, beyond loss of life, to the farthest reaches of the individuals heart.