Long Way Home

It was love at first sight.They were soulmates.It was forever.But they were only sixteen.Too innocent. Too naïve.Too ignorant about the world around them.Besides, nothing lasts forever.With their fairy-tale future torn to shreds, both boys need to learn to find their own way in an unforgiving world.Gavin Buchanan is thrown into a life he didn't want, molded to do a job he always feared. He must learn to get by, but with only his brothers in arms to lean on and secrets so deep they eat at his core every day, he struggles. How long until life in the Marine Corps turns this gentle, tender-hearted man into someone no one recognizes?Owen Wallace is adrift and going through the motions. Every time he tries to stand tall and put the past behind him, life kicks him down. There is only so much a person can take before they turn bitter and jaded. It wasn't supposed to be this way.Their souls are bound to each other.Nothing will keep them apart.It will take time, but they just need to find their way home.**Triggers for PTSD**

On the surface, Cameron Douglas had everything: descended from Hollywood royalty (son of Michael Douglas, grandson of Kirk Douglas), he was born into a life of wealth, privilege, and comfort. But by the age of thirty, he had become a drug addict, a thief, and--after a DEA drug bust--a convicted drug dealer sentenced to five years in prison, with another five years added while he was incarcerated. Through supreme willpower, a belief in himself, and a steely desire to alter his life's path, Douglas began to reverse his trajectory, to understand and deal with the psychological turmoil that tormented him for years, and to prepare for what would be a profoundly challenging but successful reentry into society at large. A brutally raw and honest memoir, Long Way Home is a powerful story of one man's descent into the depths of addiction and self-destruction--and his successful renewal of family ties that had become almost irreparably frayed.

On the surface, Cameron Douglas had everything: descended from Hollywood royalty (son of Michael Douglas, grandson of Kirk Douglas), he was born into a life of wealth, privilege, and comfort. But by the age of thirty, he had become a drug addict, a thief, and--after a DEA drug bust--a convicted drug dealer sentenced to five years in prison, with another five years added while he was incarcerated. Through supreme willpower, a belief in himself, and a steely desire to alter his life's path, Douglas began to reverse his trajectory, to understand and deal with the psychological turmoil that tormented him for years, and to prepare for what would be a profoundly challenging but successful reentry into society at large. A brutally raw and honest memoir, Long Way Home is a powerful story of one man's descent into the depths of addiction and self-destruction--and his successful renewal of family ties that had become almost irreparably frayed.

It was love at first sight.They were soulmates.It was forever.But they were only sixteen.Too innocent. Too na?ve.Too ignorant about the world around them.Besides, nothing lasts forever.With their fairy-tale future torn to shreds, both boys need to learn to find their own way in an unforgiving world.Gavin Buchanan is thrown into a life he didn't want, molded to do a job he always feared. He must learn to get by, but with only his brothers in arms to lean on and secrets so deep they eat at his core every day, he struggles. How long until life in the Marine Corps turns this gentle, tender-hearted man into someone no one recognizes?Owen Wallace is adrift and going through the motions. Every time he tries to stand tall and put the past behind him, life kicks him down. There is only so much a person can take before they turn bitter and jaded. It wasn't supposed to be this way.Their souls are bound to each other.Nothing will keep them apart.It will take time, but they just need to find their way home.**Triggers for PTSD**