The book that started it all... On an island off the California coast, bed & breakfast owner Zoe Cash is challenged by injured astronaut Yeager Gates to step off her safe island and to step into the risky waters of love.

Excerpt from WISH YOU WERE HERE:

From Celeb! magazine, Volume 25, Issue 11

MILLENNIUM MAN FALLS OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH!

NASA golden boy, Astronaut Yeager Gates (Commander, USN) was a last-minute no-show on both Jay Leno and David Letterman this week, leading to wild speculation about his condition following a car accident last month.

Officials at NASA scrambled to reassure a worried and adoring American public that Gates, pilot extraordinaire and all-around daredevil, will make a full recovery. It's certainly hard to believe that a man who has flown faster than the speed of sound, who has rocketed miles above the earth on the space shuttle, and who is designated to pilot the Millennium program's lunar module next month could be felled by a sweet little grandma on her way to play Bingo, but that seems to be the case.

Houston resident Irma Swenson, 78, says she feels terrible about turning her Buick into the path of Gates' Harley Davidson. "I know it's all my fault," she fretted. "But I was late and I had a lucky feeling about B-4."

Gates, often in the company of some of the world's most beautiful women, hasn't been seen in public since a week before the accident when he accompanied 22-year-old actress Shanna Reynolds to the premiere of her new movie, "Nymphet." According to sources, Gates left the hospital ten days ago but hasn't made any public appearances since. The brunette and curvaceous Reynolds said, "I sent him a huge teddy bear and like a gallon of chocolate kisses. I just want to know he's okay."

She's not the only one. NASA reports letters and gifts continue to pour in from around the country and around the world. No doubt about why--Gates, dubbed by Leno as "Captain America," is the hippest and handsomest of NASA's new breed of astronauts. The icon of America's latest space program, Millennium, he's been a regular on press junkets to fan the flames of enthusiasm for the first mission to the moon in over thirty years.

Rumors are rife that another astronaut will replace Gates on the Millennium 1 crew, scheduled for lift-off in just weeks, but can another take Gates' place in America's heart?

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