Return to Orchard Canyon is a business fiction book, and within it is a story that to many ofus is non-fiction. We're living it for real with seemingly no way out.Meet David Reynolds, a fifty-something corporate loyalist who thought he had life all figured out. He was following the promise: Go to school, graduate with a degree, get a corporatejob and rise to the top. Just one problem. life happened and the promise didn't quite pay outas planned. David, like so many, got trapped. A common, expendable, replaceable cog in a very bigwheel.

Here's a guy who gave his all, sacrificed his marriage, his home life, friendships and inexchange got a paycheck which he diligently spent each month to the penny, and then some.Appearances mattered. Divorce, a shallow relationship with his only daughter, competitors instead of true friends, this was David's ROI, his dividend on the promise we are all administered in our youth. The dosesof which are so strong that David gave up his real dream to pursue the logical, safe thing. The so-called "smart" thing. It's a promise all right. But is it the one we really want? Does it really pay out in the long run as planned? Is the smartthing really all that smart? So when the inevitable happened, as it often does, and David loses his coveted banking job at the ripe age of fifty-plus, he treads the hard path of realizing just how fragile and lonely his once lofty life truly was. Now what? He's alone and uncertain about his next move.

But is he really?Meet David's daughter Meghan and David's father Ron. Two unlikely guides to David's future. Two unusual sherpas who will return David to a place he almost forgot about, his home in Orchard Canyon and the dreams he once had there as a boy.This is a story that vividly captures the real feelings too many people have today. A sense of working for a paycheck, giving up their lives to make a living, and throwing any dreams they may have had aside as impractical, impossible. A trade in for surviving.Return to Orchard Canyon dispels the myth that living means sacrificing. And replaces it with the reality that our nation was built on the backs of dreamers who took risks.

Why not you? Why not today? Why not return to your own Orchard Canyon. Inspiring and actionable, this book will show you the way.