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Through the unique window of the West Point cadet life and the United States Military Academy's storied history, Roger Harris narrates the story of Dallas Adkins, best friends since their first day at West Point. Using character-building anecdotes and life perspectives, he shines a poignant, often humorous, light on life and love.
As a cadet, Dallas's bright future was within his grasp. His childhood and West Point indoctrination enabled him to easily choose the harder right over the easier wrong. But, during his senior year, forced to choose between two right paths, he elected duty over love, beginning his life's tailspin.
After losing Sophi, the love of his life, and eventually his children, Dallas struggled with intimacy for over thirty years. Escaping to the safety of his home across the Hudson River from his beloved alma mater, he recently found a modicum of solace to contemplate the improbability of life's grey. He's figured out that things are not always black and white, but was the right path the best one?
The story begins on the morning his children knock on his door after fifteen years estranged, and his world is turned upside down as he begins the introspective, painful journey to feel love again. The few months with Sophi captivated his mind, body, heart and soul, and forever changed his understanding of what is possible in a romantic relationship. It left him aching and confused, seemingly incapable of loving another woman, until Sophi also returns to him? With his world changing quickly, will he now be able to reclaim the love he denied himself so long ago?
Dallas' larger-than-life journey also sheds light on what it means to be a parent, as his story delves into the heart-wrenching impact that divorce can have on a child's relationship with a parent, especially when fraught with Parental Alienation - a poorly understood but all too frequent embattlement between parents. How will Dallas cope with being smeared with an unhealthy dose of abuse allegations, and will he be able to win the hearts of his children once again?
Join Roger Harris as he narrates Dallas Adkins' story.
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Why might this story interest me?
Granite Mistress is a redemptive romance that readers have described as an 80,000-word page-turner with a book club appeal. This compelling literary commercial fiction is "upscale Bridges of Madison County meets West Point" with an impactful plot twist about a young West Point cadet, Dallas, who chose "duty" to his unborn child over the love of his life. He then struggled for 32 years, until this story's beginning when his lost love returns, followed by his children, who become entangled in the painful details of their estrangement since their teen years. Are they meeting the woman that ruined their lives? Will the children get their dad back? And will the Dallas-Sophi “twin flames” romance be fulfilled?
With a unique storytelling voice, Granite Mistress is a must-read for anyone contemplating or having experienced a divorce with children, even if only knowing someone suffering through a contentious divorce and post-divorce. The story seamlessly "introduces" the dysfunctional parental behavior called Parental Alienation, identifying, explaining, and providing helpful guidance about it. Many readers describe this story experience as life-changing ... tears from those who have lived with PA either as a child, parent, or grandparent, and educational for those who have seen PA second-hand through a relative or friend. Early readers predict Granite Mistress will improve countless lives of children and adults involved in this all-too-common co-parenting behavior.