Right or wrong, a series of fragile relationships collides through chance, coincidence, or fate.

Twelve years ago, Kirk made an innocent but terrible mistake. As he faces down another night of tormented dreams, he struggles to shake the scars he still bears. After sixty years as man and wife, Ira and Betsy's love is as vibrant as it was the day their eyes made contact across a dusty country parking lot. Now, disease and willful destruction tear away at everything they've built together.

Just sixteen, Megan is at war with the world-and especially her mother, who flounders in a failing campaign to keep her daughter from making the same mistakes she did at that age. Robin, a career-driven woman with an unwavering, take-no-prisoners attitude-despite the ultimate sacrifice she made as a woman-finds her husband Rick, who has opted to coast (and flirt) through his own career, frustrating at best.

Wes and Trish were once high school sweethearts and now have a teenager of their own. They cherish their daughter, but that's not enough to keep them from growing apart. And now, the fate of their family hangs on the success of one big score. By eighteen, Jo-Ann was alone and pregnant. Twelve years later, she's about to discover the reward for a good deed doesn't come without loss.

This novel reveals the intersection of the lives of a group of very different people, illuminating the shocking ramifications of life, love, and loss in a crazy, mixed-up world.

Gus Adams is a middle-aged debt management counselor in Winnipeg's Osborne Village who does not believe marriage and adventure go hand-in-hand. Trapped in the routine of a mundane relationship with his live-in girlfriend, Mitch, Gus secretly nurses a compulsion to explore his wild side, do something borderline insane, and test his manhood.

After Gus confesses to Mitch that he needs to indulge in one last reckless activity in order to scratch his perpetual itch for excitement, she tells him her teenage niece is coming to live with them for the summer. Despite being faced with adolescent angst and a girlfriend who is making it more than obvious that her biological clock is ticking loudly, Gus still daydreams of satisfying his thrill-seeking pleasures. As he attempts one wacky stunt after another, Gus reignites the caveman inside of him-while Mitch wonders if all the time she has invested in their relationship has been worth it.

"Boom Chicka Wah Wah" tells the tale of one man's roller-coaster journey to the realization that what he thinks is the end of a big adventure is really just the beginning.

The day of his thirty-ninth birthday, relationship counsellor Gus Adams was completely alone. He was supposed to have a birthday bash, surrounded by friends and coworkers, but everyone cancelled for this reason or that. Gus-left with a silly Staples birthday banner and chilled champagne, sans company-realized he had no one upon whom to depend, no one to love.

With sudden determination, Gus decided to find love-real, substantial love-before his dreaded fortieth birthday. After all, he knows how to make a relationship work. He spent his career listening to other people talk about their relationships. He knew what worked and what didn't, but Gus hadn't been in a romantic relationship in over ten years, since a heartless vixen tossed him out on the metaphorical curb.

A lot had changed over the past ten years; Gus placed all his conviction into fast-tracking his soul mate through the polished hands of a professional dating service. Soon, he'd be overwhelmed by free spirits who barely made it past date number one. Following forays into adultery, whip wielding seductresses, extortion, drinks spiked for male enhancement and a mandated admission to John School, Gus wondered if he'd ever make it to date number two.

Gus Adams is a middle-aged debt management counselor in Winnipeg's Osborne Village who does not believe marriage and adventure go hand-in-hand. Trapped in the routine of a mundane relationship with his live-in girlfriend, Mitch, Gus secretly nurses a compulsion to explore his wild side, do something borderline insane, and test his manhood.

After Gus confesses to Mitch that he needs to indulge in one last reckless activity in order to scratch his perpetual itch for excitement, she tells him her teenage niece is coming to live with them for the summer. Despite being faced with adolescent angst and a girlfriend who is making it more than obvious that her biological clock is ticking loudly, Gus still daydreams of satisfying his thrill-seeking pleasures. As he attempts one wacky stunt after another, Gus reignites the caveman inside of him-while Mitch wonders if all the time she has invested in their relationship has been worth it.

"Boom Chicka Wah Wah" tells the tale of one man's roller-coaster journey to the realization that what he thinks is the end of a big adventure is really just the beginning.

Right or wrong, a series of fragile relationships collides through chance, coincidence, or fate.

Twelve years ago, Kirk made an innocent but terrible mistake. As he faces down another night of tormented dreams, he struggles to shake the scars he still bears. After sixty years as man and wife, Ira and Betsy's love is as vibrant as it was the day their eyes made contact across a dusty country parking lot. Now, disease and willful destruction tear away at everything they've built together.

Just sixteen, Megan is at war with the world-and especially her mother, who flounders in a failing campaign to keep her daughter from making the same mistakes she did at that age. Robin, a career-driven woman with an unwavering, take-no-prisoners attitude-despite the ultimate sacrifice she made as a woman-finds her husband Rick, who has opted to coast (and flirt) through his own career, frustrating at best.

Wes and Trish were once high school sweethearts and now have a teenager of their own. They cherish their daughter, but that's not enough to keep them from growing apart. And now, the fate of their family hangs on the success of one big score. By eighteen, Jo-Ann was alone and pregnant. Twelve years later, she's about to discover the reward for a good deed doesn't come without loss.

This novel reveals the intersection of the lives of a group of very different people, illuminating the shocking ramifications of life, love, and loss in a crazy, mixed-up world.

The day of his thirty-ninth birthday, relationship counsellor Gus Adams was completely alone. He was supposed to have a birthday bash, surrounded by friends and coworkers, but everyone cancelled for this reason or that. Gus-left with a silly Staples birthday banner and chilled champagne, sans company-realized he had no one upon whom to depend, no one to love.

With sudden determination, Gus decided to find love-real, substantial love-before his dreaded fortieth birthday. After all, he knows how to make a relationship work. He spent his career listening to other people talk about their relationships. He knew what worked and what didn't, but Gus hadn't been in a romantic relationship in over ten years, since a heartless vixen tossed him out on the metaphorical curb.

A lot had changed over the past ten years; Gus placed all his conviction into fast-tracking his soul mate through the polished hands of a professional dating service. Soon, he'd be overwhelmed by free spirits who barely made it past date number one. Following forays into adultery, whip wielding seductresses, extortion, drinks spiked for male enhancement and a mandated admission to John School, Gus wondered if he'd ever make it to date number two.