Dan Churach

Back to Paradise Dan Churach

BACK TO PARADISE By Dan Churach Ben Decker has no idea that he is about to stumble into his personal paradise, a paradise far more beautiful than he could have ever imagined. Trapped in a two-decade-long marriage that seems to be going nowhere, the closest he can get to joyful bliss is through his career. Business takes Ben to Hawaii where he will promote his invention to a global audience. After boarding a modern-day Jumbo Jet on the mainland, he somehow finds himself on a propeller-driven Super Constellation approaching a Honolulu International Airport of long ago. Instantly immersed into the charm of 1957 Territorial Hawaii, he falls head-over-heels in love with a beautiful young Hawaiian woman, Leilani, as she shows him a long-ago Hawaii still serene, still untouched. But the more Ben tries to open himself to his new-found paradise, the more paranoia he feels from American FBI agents watching his every move, convinced that he is a communist spy. Back to Paradise follows Ben as he tries to balance his new found love against the rough-and-tumble world of a 1950s Cold War as well as the psychological conflict pitting his love for his two children living decades into the future against a marriage relationship that emotionally ended years ago. His attempts to overcome his quandary will keep you riveted right up to the very last page.