"When writers write with unsullied beauty, the words hum in your head. Haunt your dreams. Beckon your desires. And in the rose brimmed dawn, the world becomes your own. Forever wholly. Forever conquered."Landon Cassidy, an up-and-coming writer on the brink of a literary breakthrough, flees from unsurmountable pressure to traverse the northwest. With few belongings, and his mutt Maple, a stranger in a strange land, he stumbles into a chance encounter with a reclusive literary legend.Landon's world is turned upside down when he is swept up in the encompassing beauty of the author's life, both past and present.From drunken one night stands to doomed romances, Landon chances for an opportunity with redemption while battling his inner demons in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains.