Sometimes your worst enemy is your own memory

California was as far from New York and Annabel as Barnaby Fox could flee. Two stars of the same constellation but still light-years apart. He’s still screwing up everything he touches, even being forced out of the newspaper he founded, undone by the outcry over his column on gay marriage. The snarky voice of a goldfish ghost still swims around in his head, cajoling and advising, and he still can’t quite let Annabel go, the brilliant, impossible love of his youth. His friend Paige told him, “You need a once-in-a-lifetime, epic kind of love. Ordinary love is not enough for you.”

Reunions, revenge, remembrance, and the revelation of heart-shattering secrets are at the core of The Firefly Season, the final novel in The Barnaby Atlas Fox Series, as Barnaby discovers that sometimes the key to the future lies in the wreckage of the past