title: A Long Journey Back
author: Madrzak, Carole
description: A Long Journey Back is a poignant love story that deals with the emotional stress of keeping a marriage together when hopes and dreams are shattered, and loveas endurance is stretched to the breaking point. Caleb and Lauren Morrison are desperately in love, have the perfect jobs, and are about to become parents, when they find themselves the victims of a jealous co-workeras scheme to ruin Caleb financially and personally. In an instant their lives begin a downward spiral that threatens to send their marriage on a collision course for failure. Caught between love and necessity, Caleb and Lauren choose a path that impacts the course of their lives. The kind and loving husband changes into a monster wrapped in a cocoon of self-righteous pity. He plots a web of deceit and sets into motion a series of events that affect the lives of those around him. Through their adversity, the couple discovers a powerful inner strength.