George Brooks and Craig Hostetler are long-time friends with a tangled history. Neither could wait to leave small towns behind and make something of themselves. But the big, wide world quickly proves disappointing, and distance takes a toll on their friendship. Love, especially, fails to live up to the hype of their dreams.

 

George struggles to balance her career ambitions with any semblance of a personal life—singed by a wrecked romance, she takes a series of no-strings-attached lovers to ease her loneliness. Meanwhile Craig, searching for a sense of belonging and stability, soon feels trapped by the very job, marriage, and family he'd been so desperate to have.

 

But they stand by each other's side, whether it's coping with demanding careers, meeting the challenges of modern marriage, or dealing with a past that just won't stay buried. Their friendship is tested by the births of children and deaths of loved ones, the ebb and flow of romantic relationships. After two decades of weathering everything life can throw at them, including the trauma of divorce, will Craig and George finally realize the true value of what they found at sixteen?

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Theory Versus Practice is a contemporary romance containing adult content and intended for mature readers only.