From high school friends to adult lovers, Dwayne Garret and Caroline Jacobs are invited to participate in a Chicago based internship program as high school sophomores from Milwaukee and Cleveland respectively. The two immediately recognize the physical attraction between them, but don’t explore it due to outside influences. The events of a young adult’s life cause the two to loose touch with one another only to have a chance encounter via email years late. Dwayne realize that this may be his last chance to get to know the damsel that caught his eye in high school and jumps at the opportunity to rekindle the feelings that had been locked away for so long. Caroline accepts his advances and the two begin their relationship. After reaching a point of turbulence in the relationship, Dwayne figures that he and Caroline had been together long enough to pursue closing the gap between them and offers to relocate, only to be rejected. Having swallowed his pride on the issue, Dwayne continues with the relationship only to have Caroline walk away without any explanation. These two are forced to relive this part of their past when a friend of Dwayne’s ask them to participate in an interview on emotional relationships for her thesis. In the end, they run into each other again when invited back to Chicago for a 10-year reunion of the internship. It’s there that Dwayne finds out why Caroline turned her back on him and Caroline finds out that Dwayne had secrets of his own. Set in the Midwest, this story takes you from Chicago to Toledo with most of the action going down in Milwaukee. The characters start off their interview talking about how they met and ends up in tears with how things fell apart. It’s an emotional roller coaster from beginning to end. Author, LaFreddie B, started this book with one goal in mind; produce a quality book without feeling a need to use profanity or explicit scenes. Mission accomplished! Long Distance Relations doesn’t promote illegal activity, has a clean dialog, and is not sexually explicit in the least bit.