Product Description
Reef has been living in Calgary for the past year, but now he’s back in Halifax for the funeral of Frank Colville, his former mentor. Memories of Frank compete with memories of Leeza and the terrible way their relationship ended. Mindful that the restraining order against him has been renewed by Leeza’s mother, Reef has no intention of staying in Halifax for long.
Leeza, in the meantime, is feeling stifled by her mother’s “concern.” A first-year university student at Dalhousie, she is kicking herself for not attending university out of town.
Despite Reef ’s best efforts to stay away, circumstances quickly unfold to push him and Leeza ever closer to each other. An eager political crusader wants to close Reef ’s former group home, and he will stop at nothing to get media attention, including manipulating news items—Reef is shocked to discover that he has been photographed outside Leeza’s house and is, therefore, in violation of the restraining order. Finding himself at the centre of growing controversy, Reef is pushed to his limits.
Before he leaves town, Reef must face his demons and make some tough choices or else risk losing everything he has ever worked for, including the only girl he has ever loved.
About the Author
DON AKER is the author of several novels, including The First Stone, winner of the Ann Connor Brimer Award and the White Pine Award, and One on One, winner of the Canadian Authors Association Lilla Stirling Award. One on One was also nominated for the Hackmatack Award, the Stellar Book Award, the Rocky Mountain Book Award and the Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award. Aker’s first novel, Of Things Not Seen, also won the Ann Connor Brimer Award and the Lilla Stirling Award. The father of two daughters, Don lives with his wife in Nova Scotia, where he has been a classroom teacher for more than 20 years.
