The Road to Love

Book excerpt: Allen Schumacher is a 26-year-old graphic designer from the Minneapolis area. Living with his 28-year-old roommate, Ron, Allen has made a new life for himself. Back home he has left a newly broken family and a family history of relationship hardship. Struggling with family issues, a father who is acting like an 18-year-old punk, a sister who hangs on to addictive and unhealthy relationships, and a brother who has become a dog-collar-wearing sex addict, Allen struggles to find his own identity. Longing for a normal relationship after ending a relationship of nearly a decade with his high school sweetheart, Allen discovers that finding the right girl is more than impossible. Sorting through his feelings for a married woman, a co-worker, and his roommate’s girlfriend are just examples of his frustration. Will he ever find true love? Or, will he end up a starving sex addict like his father and brother? What do his mixed feelings mean and where will the decisions he makes take him down relationship lane?