Go to ELF! — Lauren Mclaughlin

A romance novel with a spiritual twist! Tony Celentano and Frankie Doerrer, troubled teenage boys struggling to understand and deal with the violence that was raging within their homes, forged a boyhood alliance in the middle of a small patch of woods in St. Petersburg, Florida that turned them into more than friends, it made them brothers. For more than twenty years since then, they have fostered their brotherhood by meeting at the same restaurant at nine o'clock, every Saturday morning to share the minute details of their lives and to offer each other unfailing support without ever having to ask for it. As they approach the age of 40, however, for the first time they begin to realize that their dysfunctional childhood experiences are keeping them mired in their safe but somewhat colorless existences. It isn't until Tony loses his job and faces financial ruin that an old memory emerges; a memory that is so revealing that from that time on, the lives of both men change rapidly for the better.