A captivating story novel based on life-changing true events.

It's 1988. Cline Lyle is working construction near Bryce Canyon the day he buys a birthday cake, and everything changes. Cline has the decorations, the presents, and the birthday candles -- but where's the guest of honor? After the police find an abandoned vehicle in a field outside of town, a close family member becomes what Cline feared most...a missing person. Over the next two years, Cline faces one challenge after another as he searches for a missing loved one, deals with a heartbroken father hanging on by a thread, and falls in love with a young woman he can't let go. But can romance happen in the midst of a storm? And the Lonely Candles -- who are they for? Based on the inspiring true story of adventure, hope, romance, and redemption, the journey of one true story of adventure, hope, romance, and redemption, the journey of one young man shows how God is ever-present and capable of moving mountains in the most impossible circumstances.