Trials and Triumphs is the first book of collected works written by Brad Dwyer. This novel takes the reader through the fictional lives of varying characters, demonstrating the hardships and ultimate successes that we all experience on a daily basis, but are too faint-hearted to write down. The book takes you on a first person journey in the lives of fictional characters, who in reality are the people that live inside all of us. Whether it is about a high school love in "Parallel Lines" to a traveled life long dream in "Summer Pitch," this book can really inspire oneself on a visionary road into stories that are out in the world somewhere, but are just not captured yet.