Orange Cappuccino: A Novel

Orange Cappuccino tells the poignant story of a fated romance. Joshua, married, with a young son and a baby due, encounters Sarah, an ambitious young businesswoman, also married, who evokes strange memories of his dead mother, victim of a tenacious, subversive cancer. Inexorably drawn to each other, Josh and Sarah become lovers who abandon their families to be together. Ostracized by all, Josh and Sarah exile themselves to small town Colorado. Threatened by an obsessively damaged vet, they flee once again: to far-off isolation near the vast Alaskan wilderness. In Alaska, their love and fate is challenged by poverty, solitude, and misfortune. Stubbornly enduring, they navigate a changeable life and become inextricably bound to one another. Throughout it all, a magical drink sustains their love and humor. Joshua recounts their story with sardonic humor and tender regret, beginning with a winter accident on the Alaskan Highway. His perspective is oddly detached and introspective, devoted to his fellow traveler and fated love, with a passion for telling his listeners the truth after all these years.