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Kensington
December 2006
On Sale: October 31, 2006
416 pages
ISBN: 0758207999
EAN: 9780758207999
Trade Size (reprint)
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Romance Contemporary
Charming underachiever Jamie Garner is living a sexy
slacker’s life in San Francisco during the dot-com boom—
avoiding his stalled career as a radio producer, barely
holding on to his relationship, but surrounded by fun-
loving friends. And then Jamie gets the call he’s always
dreaded: Teddy, the father who never accepted him, has
died. It’s time for the prodigal son to come home to the
subdivisions and strip malls of suburban New Jersey to
face the emotionally barren family he left behind years
ago.
Caught between the guilt he wants to shake and the grief
he can’t express, Jamie takes solace in a box of
memorabilia he finds in the attic, marked “1960,” the year
his father spent in San Francisco but kept secret. Jamie
is especially drawn to a moody, enigmatic photo of the
stunning Dean Foster, his dad’s closest friend, who headed
west then mysteriously disappeared. Determined to unlock the mystery of his father, Jamie
seeks out the artists and poets, the free spirits and wild
men mentioned in Teddy’s letters to Dean. It’s a journey
that takes him deep into the subcultures of San Francisco,
from the bohemian heyday of the Beat Generation through
the Internet mania of his contemporary world, even as it
unleashes something primal, hungry, and slightly dangerous
in Jamie. As his search for the elusive Dean Foster turns
ever more obsessive, undermining his friendships, his
income, and his fidelity to his partner, Jamie is forced
to decide what he is willing to risk in the pursuit of the
truth.
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