To Venus and Back

"... enlightening, intriguing, and surprisingly hilarious! I thought dating would get easier after my late twenties. Boy, was I wrong!" -Readers' Favorite, Foluso Falaye, 5 STARS Two years after the unexpected death of his wife, Turner Grant-architect and father of twin boys in Washington DC-was ready to consider love once more. Yet everything had changed, and he soon found himself adrift in the digital-dating world.

At age fifty-one, Turner Grant became a widower and single parent to his twin boys. Deep in grief, he often found daily routines difficult and his work arduous. But after two years, Turner embarked on a journey to find his future, both in life and love.

What Turner discovered shocked him. After tentative steps into the shallow dating waters, he was quickly immersed in a deep ocean filled with unexpected riptides and crosscurrents within a digital-dating universe that didn't exist when he last dated decades earlier.

In three years, he met fifty-four single, middle-aged women who took him to a totally different world-Venus. It was a journey-a journey that's, well ... complicated.

His probes of vulnerability, fear, sexting, and different types of relationships with women results in a survey that is inviting, revealing, and starkly candid. --Midwest Book Review, Diane Donovan