When Roger Littlejohn; a single father and member of the military was killed in a random terrorist attack while exiting the NCO club in Frankfurt, Germany his cousin Tad Reynolds became the official guardian of his three sons. Tad and his partner, Jere West, had just returned from picking up the boys and were bringing them back to the states to begin a new life in Arkansas. Change was no stranger to thirty-one-year old Tad. Due to a family loss of his own he had been moved from a beach community in northern California to his mother’s family homestead in Arkansas at a young age. At the time he was just a few years older than the triplets were now. He was now heading the Lawson Clan and in charge of all the business interest for the family. Yosemite Fire is the reflection that Tad has about life as a teenage member of a large extended family and how they had reached this point. Part 2 continues Tad’s story as he is moved from Morgan Bay, California to Lawson, Arkansas. He has to grow up fast as he is the oldest male of his generation and a lot of leadership responsibility was to fall on his shoulders. It is the story of how he interacts with his cousins and the three teenage boys the family takes in after family losses of their own. We watch him fall in love and finally figure out that there really is a big difference between commitment and friendship.
