The Last Good Light

Frank Reyes spent most of his life running toward burning buildings while running away from himself.

A retired Galveston firefighter, Frank finally came out at fifty after his wife's death and has spent the last eight years learning how to live honestly. Just as he begins to feel whole, a neurologist delivers devastating news: early-onset Alzheimer's. Five good years, maybe less, before memory-and identity-begin to slip away.

Instead of retreating, Frank makes a decision that terrifies him. H...