Bøger af Gerald Spencer

Jake and Diane, high school seniors in a small depressed Apalachian town of Farthing Virginia, run away from home. Packing only a few clothes and having little money, they accept a cross country ride. The driver, Dirk, an oversexed thirty five year old textbook salesman, abandons them on a deserted roadside in the foothills of the mountains outside of Denver. The couple, moments from death, are rescued by the arrival of an elderly couple at their mountain retreat. While Jake and Diane are being transported to the hospital, major accidents at a ski resort and on the access highways cause delay and death. Dirk returns to the east coast, travels to Florida where he meets a pair of welfare thieves preying on horny men like Dirk. He is hospitalized after being left for dead. The elderly couple take Jake under their wings. He is befriended by Michael, the paramedic member of the ambulance team who rescued him and his girlfriend. Diane returns home to her divorced father, finishes high school, moves to Georgetown on her step-father's dime and attends university with her mother while Jake works full time to afford to even start a college education. He attends school with Jack, the elderly couple's grandson who moves in from Salt Lake city. Jack nicknames Jake 'Cub. He was found in the woods, ' by his grandparents. The name sticks. In Farthing, life goes on. Young people fight to survive, physically and emotionally. A young girl is brutally murdered, her body abandoned near the town's water supply. A two-time Viet Nam veteran imagines the woods surrounding the town are full of Viet Cong which his platoon must eliminate. A young man has AIDS, fears he passed it to his young pregnant wife. He is not to be found on the day his baby girl is born. One by one the friends, left behind, connect with a love interest or a mate. Others go off to college on a surprising number of scholastic scholarships, some go in the military.

A mother disappears after abandoning her teenage son and his two younger brothers to her husband. The husband dies a few years later, broken, alone, fired as manager and estranged by his musical prodigy son, but the mother does not appear to claim her children. World press alleges the man died from pneumonia following a heart attack, the conditions complicated by AIDS, others know the real truth. The mother is in hiding. The oldest son, now acting mother and father to his young brothers, sets out on a fruitless search for their mother.

Louis Sunderland is self-made, self-spoiled, young, handsome, wealthy and powerful. He is the idol of millions yet was abandoned by his parents. With all his advantages and the extraordinary influence he wields, he does not use them but to be breadwinner of employees dependent upon his success. Inspired by a gift of two antique photos and a gemstone, he realizes there may be nothing more than this for him in this world, Sunderland undertakes a journey using some one else's name, unaware there is unexpected heavy baggage that goes with him. Destination Standerton is a story of love, seeded and surviving, in the face of the horrors of war. Coming face-to-face with the existence of concentration camps in 1899, the young Sunderland discovers, and writes, a love story founded out of extreme deprivation. Ready to depart South Africa for home in the United States, once again, Sunderland falls victim to a mistaken identity as a spokesperson against genocide. He escapes, with help from unexpected quarters, but will this be enough support for him to build on his new found reason for a meaningful life or will it cause him to return to old ways?

Sabatini is the family name used for the descendants of the doomed couple. Gian Como Sabatini is the main character in the biographic novel, The Watchers, part 7 of The Romeo and Juliet Chronicles. The Watchers provides a look at the turmoil in which the Sabatini live and love; it, also, covers the story of the fourth Romeo who impacts their present lives.