"You don't know where you're going until you know where you've been."
Acting as a prequel to the Independence Day series, this five-chapter volume chronicles the events of August 9, 1961 -- a humid, sticky Wednesday in Haven Park. While the murderous events of the first four books are still five years away from this volume, there are signs that things aren't nearly as picture perfect as they appear on the surface...especially when it comes to the characters' love lives.