George and Grace Goodrich look forward to his retirement, and enjoying the rest of their lives together. He arranged with the travel agency tickets to go to Paris, France two months after his retirement luncheon to make up for the honeymoon they couldn't afford when they married, and Grace looks forward to this trip. She notices he has begun to repeat himself. One morning George mistakes Grace's tube of anti-wrinkle cream for a tube of toothpaste. Suddenly, he decides to move out of their bedroom. After that the mail brings travel tickets not to fly to Paris, but to see the "Hot-air Balloon Festival" in Alberquerque, New Mexico. Grace is puzzled, and disappointed. She realizes George's behavoir needs to be examined. A doctor determines he has senior dimentia. One in five families is affected by the Alzheimer disease. He advises Grace to place him in a gated facility. Soon, George has no memory of Grace, and meets and falls in love with another patient. Will Grace abandon the man she has loved for forty years because he no longer remembers her, and has forgotten he's a married man? Read and find out what happens in this intriguing book