The Outcast The Long Road Back Author:Barbara Dan A powerful love story about acceptance, healing and reconciliation against a colorful backdrop of early Oregon's cultural and historic events. Following his bitter divorce at age twenty-six, Alex MacLachlan is socially ostracized by family and friends back East. Heartsick, he travels the world in an alcoholic haze until one day in January 1913... more » he comes ashore, thousands of miles from home, in Salem, Oregon, a small town with strict prohibition laws. Battling to overcome alcoholism, Alex finds himself befriended by the local doctor and his beautiful daughter Emily, who encourages him to believe that even a man with a checkered past can find forgiveness and a new life. Based on an inspiring true story.« less