The Long Way Home

What do you do when your life reaches a dead end and you know it? Discover the unusual love story about two small town people whose lives have reached a crossroads.

Larry Edwards fears he’s failed at life. He’s just passed forty, with hopes of marriage and a family vanishing, when a thunderbolt strikes. His sister dies in a car crash, and he becomes the guardian of his rebellious nephew, Anthony. Larry tries, and his heart is in the right place, but he doesn’t know anything about raising children, and Anthony refuses to make things easy for him.

Anna Nicholson has her own huge decisions to make. Estranged from her family and nearing thirty, her youth is fading, and she’s a part-time community college student. When her boyfriend’s steroid-fueled football career falls apart, and he takes his rage out on Anna, she’s left with nowhere to go.

When the two strangers cross paths, they find solace in each other. Convention says their relationship will fail, but the chemistry is real. That is, until secrets from their pasts threaten to ruin everything. Larry and Anna each face a choice between love and righting the devastating wrongs they’ve caused to others.

In their quest for happiness together, Larry and Anna must learn the real power of love and forgiveness—and that, in life, finding joy sometimes means taking the long road home.

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A former college history professor, Rob Bauer now brings his considerable knowledge of the past into his historical novels. His books strike a balance of creative storytelling and meticulous historical accuracy. One of his books, The Buffalo Soldier, even contains some of his own original research about 1890s Montana. He writes a history blog on his website, robbauerbooks.com/blog, where he reviews historical fiction books and blogs about the historical influence of things as diverse as Martin Luther King, Jr., leaded gasoline, fascism, and mosquitoes.

In addition to his historical novels, Rob is also a huge baseball fan and has written four nonfiction books on baseball history. In 2019 he gave a presentation at the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

When not writing, Rob lives at the beach and tries to maintain the fiction that he's a runner. To that end, he swears he'll finish a marathon someday.