A Long Shadow — Barri Bryan

Grant Madison, military man and son of the town's most revered citizen, is home after serving in the army in Europe and Korea. He must adjust to a way of life that seems, after all this time, alien and outmoded. His biggest challenge is facing the woman he once deserted and still loves.
In 1955, Tyler Carson celebrates her thirtieth birthday by ending a two-year, going-nowhere love affair. She is determined from this day forward to live life on her own terms. The return of an old love and the upheaval of social change converge to cast a long shadow of doubt across her firm resolve.