Rich Marcello 
Beauty of the Fall 

A TECHNOLOGY EXECUTIVE CHARTS A HIGH-RISK, A UNCONVENTIONAL PATH WHILE GRIEVING THE LOSS OF HIS SONDan Underlight, a divorced, workaholic technology executive, suffers lingering grief over A the death of his ten-year-old son, Zack. When Danaas longtime friend and boss fires Dan from Radio Radio, the company that he helped create, he crashes A and isolates himself. Willow, a poet and domestic violence survivor, helps Dan regain his footing. With A her support, Dan ventures on a pilgrimage of sorts, visiting Fortune 500 companies to A flesh out a software start-up idea. He then recruits three former Radio Radio colleagues and starts Conversationworks, a A company he believes will be at the vanguard of social change. Guided by Danaas leadership, Conversationworks enjoys some early successes, A but its existence is soon threatened on multiple fronts. Will Dan survive the ensuing A corporate battles and realize the potential of his company? Or will he be defeated by his A enemies and consumed by his grief?