Leaving Paradise
When Caleb Becker gets convicted after drunk
driving from a party and hit and running over Maggie Armstrong, he gets sent to
juvenile detention for a year. Meanwhile, Maggie has to have painful months of
physical therapy, but afterwards, she still has a limp. Her social life and her
scholarship have both been destroyed.
Meanwhile, after a year in Juvie, Caleb is
finally released, but he still needs to put up with the endless nagging of his
transitional officer, and the eyes of the entire town. Coming home should have
felt differently, but now, his family, ex-girlfriend, Kendra, and his friends
all seem like strangers.
Together, Caleb and Maggie find strength and
comfort from each other, relying on other to make each other stronger. Then the
truth of the accident emerges, and then everything changes. After a prompting
from his transitional officer, and changes of events in his life, Caleb decides
to run away for good… (Continued in Return
to Paradise)
Return to Paradise
Nothing lasts forever
Caleb Becker left Paradise Ohio 8 months ago, taking
with him a promise that he promised he would take to his grave. If the truth
got out, it would ruin everything.
Maggie Armstrong tried to be strong when Caleb left
suddenly. He broke her heart and managed to convince herself that she had moved
on. She was determined to start over and live a new life.
But Maggie and Caleb meet again at a rehabilitation
program especially designed for drunk driving; there they share their
experiences to young adolescents and Juvie prisoners. They try to deny the
passion still between them but buried feelings resurface and Caleb finds
himself to reveal the secret of the night of the accident or not their
relationship will always be separated by the secret.
…not even good-bye
