A traumatic experience in Iraq and a failed relationship cause Jonathan Adams to scramble to re-set himself. In spite of having built a successful career as a professor and politician he begins the last third of his life a flawed fragile man wary of the years ahead plagued by a neurotic fear of rejection and a compulsion to be well-liked...

Wallace Rogers manages a consulting business that specializes in building the capacity of local governments in developing countries. His projects have been funded by the National Endowment for Democracy the United States Agency for International Development the Asian Development Bank and the New Zealand Agency for International Development. Byron's Lane is his first novel.