Bücher von Evelyn Cole

Jason Foster III, basketball star in a wealthy seaside community, hangs himself I the high school gymnasium. For the sake of all others in his school, Dr. Harold Martin, the principal, feels compelled to find out why. This is a seaside town where yacht club members paint over rust before selling their boats, and where home builders swap techniques for concealing structural flaws. Because Hal thinks teen suicide may be avoided by facing the rust, wrinkles and flaws in everyone, he investigated Jason's Suicide and uncovers far too much at great personal risk. But he can't stop.

AIDS and Alzheimer's in the Eighties-tempest spawned love: Daniel Lawrence, a superior court judge, is being tried for the assisted suicide of his wife, a young victim of Alzheimer's disease. He wants justice defined in the light of personal commitment. His defense: no malice aforethought. Joanna Archer, 20 years his junior, is the court reporter on his trial. She escapes from a bullying husband and craves personal autonomy. She and Dan meet during Hurricane Irene in Miami and begin the strange intertwining of dependency patterns, the gaining and giving up of control, a common struggle. Joanna's friend and colleague discovers she's an AIDS carrier and must deny her unhealthy need for sex, thereby denying Dan's defense lawyer's need for love. Ralph, Dan's friend since surviving a capsized boat with him in a 1938 hurricane, has his wife's stomach pumped when she attempts suicide with pills. He needs her alive; she hates him. Each character values autonomy. Some gain it; some give it up. The suspense of the novel lies in who; the depth lies in how.