About the book

There are two worlds, the outside realm and the one inside. When a group of strangers, ordinary people whose lives are messy with extraordinary events and circumstances, gather for a life-changing workshop, secrets, grudges, and long-held regrets collide – forcing each of them to decide whether to heal, escape, or finally seek revenge. Moonlighting during his sabbatical starts out as an idea to bolster the Johnson family’s finances and add to the retirement fund; as it turns out, the benefits are far greater than any dollar amount and far more widespread than Thomas could have imagined. Thomas Johnson is a high school Economics teacher. He has instructed fifteen- to eighteen-year-old kids in the art of finance for twenty straight years, including summer school most of those years. Sitting at his kitchen table, TJ remembers, In the beginning, I had such compassion and a major desire to change the world. My colleagues often called me a Maverick, a lone dissenter and somewhat rebellious, and my goal was to be just that. I’ve lost, no misplaced, those emotions, and it happened without me noticing. It was gradual.