Song In the Park — Martin Brant

Nothing would ever be the same for Michael Anderson, a renowned San Diego surgeon, after losing a little girl on the operating table. He blamed himself, rightfully, having stayed out the night before, indulging in his exotic nightlife.

A half continent away, Justin Brooks left his bride to be standing at the altar when he ran from the church as if it were full of vampires. Leaving his hometown and his past behind, he found solace in the vast desert wilderness of far west Texas, as a park ranger in the Big Bend National Park.

Their paths crossed in the Big Bend, where the river, desert and mountains meet the sky, and a friendship was born. Together, as one day ran into another, they found peace in the whispering hues and textures of the arid land. And they began to heal, learning more and more of themselves and each other. They loved the mountains and sunsets, and the poetry of the land, and they loved each other. Not until the day came, when they faced losing everything they had found, did both realize yet another destiny in the Big Bend. Neither could have foreseen the peril they would have to live through first.