Sometimes our dreams have to die before true love can begin ...William Wise, 50, lives a brokenhearted yet ordered life with his dog Bump in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia in a log "mansion" he built by hand as therapy after his wife unexpectedly divorced him. William had re-purposed his grief into a memoir that became a National Book Award finalist, and he is content to lead a silent, unfulfilled life ...... until Brittany Taylor limps off...