In Love Is All You Need, Book Three of the Love Rescue Me Trilogy, we follow the ongoing adventures of Jack, the Saint, St. Clair and the Love of his life, Diane Dante. In Book Two, Jack and Diane are finally reunited, after being separated for thirty-five years. Love Is All You Need picks up where Love Hurts and Love Scars leave off. Book Three continues as Jack and Diane, their daughter Emma, Jack's daughter Rosie from Jack's previous marriage to Playboy Playmate Maggie (the Cat) Corday and Jack's heretofore unknown son, Stone Will Walker, join together to create a storefront outreach center in Los Angeles' Skid Row called The We Are Family Foundation. In this book we meet Father Timothy Circe, A Jesuit priest who has been blinded during a botched exorcism. After losing his eyesight, Father Tim finds he is able to perform many inexplicable and miraculous faith healings. However, as is so often the case, this gift ultimately proves to be a curse. Father Tim's power becomes his eventual undoing. Love Is All You Need follows Father Tim and his mother, the beautiful and ambitious Willow Circe, Jack and Diane St. Clair, their children Rosie St. Clair and Dr. Emma du Barry as they make their way in an unforgiving but translucent world. We get to know Jack's long lost son Stone Will Walker, a chip of Jack's hard block. Stone Will is also a boxer and guitar player. We watch as Will is reunited with his mulatto son Freedom Walker and we watch Stone Will become the man (and father) he was always meant to be. We are introduced to Dr. Emma's rock star husband, 70's rocker Dusty Dukes, who introduces his staid wife to a new type of lifestyle, only to almost lose her in the process. We come to know Jack's childhood friend Daryl (Delo) Lorenzo and his transgender wife, Leigh Darling, In Book Three, Love Is All You Need, we follow the adventures of Jack's former protege: feisty widow, Dr. Jolene (Juliet) Jensen-Ames as she goes on a solo cross-country odyssey in search of her life's purpose. Along the way, Dr. Juliet meets a mysterious old man who teaches her the meaning of life. She also meets other unforgettable characters, as her own brand of sympathy and kindness affect all with whom she comes into contact. We meet Dr. Juliet's new love interest, the handsome and wholesome stutterer Adam Taylor. Adam is dying from an incurable cancer and is sorely in need of a miracle. Juliet and Adam marry and together along with Juliet's precocious daughter Dottie and Adam's impressionable son Cody, they become one big happy family. All these characters come together in the finale, a grand explosion of hubris, redemption, suicide, addiction, recovery, a miracle or two, and the joys of Love and child raising. Book Threee follows these characters as they attempt to make their way and do the right thing in a very confused and indifferent society. This book explores organized religion, faith, drug addiction, prescription medication, homelessness, recovery and many of the other issues that face us as a society today. http: //jstover6151.wix.com/johnstoverauthor
About the Author: John Stover was born in Brockton, Mass on June 1, 1951, the fourth child of seven. It was in Brockton, Mass., that Mr. Stover spent his youth at his father's hotel, The West Elm Hotel, where he observed men from the Brockton VA Hospital. Much of Mr. Stover's writing is culled from these dysfunctional men. As a child, Mr. Stover observed several unexpected, sudden and violent deaths. As a youth of fifteen, Mr. Stover was involved in a bizarre accident that took the life of his elderly neighbor. He steadfastly maintains his innocence. The author attended Boston University and the University of California at Los Angeles, where he majored in English literature and writing. Mr. Stover began his college career as a pre-med major. He was forced to leave the university after waking up restrained in a straitjacket, the result of a bad LSD trip. The author was picked up running naked through the streets of Boston on Christmas Eve. That episode pretty much ended any thoughts of an academic or medical career. In 1974, Mr. Stover spent a year hitch-hiking around the south, working at various odd jobs, as well as hopping freight cars, guessing astrological signs for money and working for the local moonshiners and drug dealers. In six months Mr. Stover logged over 20,000 miles on his thumb, sleeping under bridges, accepting the hospitality of strangers and living by his wits. Today, this living situation would be described as homeless. In 1973, it was merely living "On the Road." In 1976, Mr. Stover moved to California where he worked as a personal assistant to Edwin W. Pauley, Chairman of the Board of Regents, for the Universities of California and Treasurer of the Democratic Party. He also worked at several of the local area hospitals, UCLA Medical Center and St. John's Hospital, among others. Mr. Stover stayed four years with Edwin W. Pauley, spending summers with the Pauleys on their private Island in Hawaii. Some of the guests who spent time on Coconut Island were Jerry Brown, Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Meredith Willson, composer of "The Music Man." The author also worked for several foreign ambassadors as well as for the Academy Award winning director Lewis Milestone. In 1984, Mr. Stover entered the world of fashion, working for several international clothing companies, winning several awards and achieving considerable success and acclaim. In 1989, he opened his own concern. My Stover has written seven novels and one memoir.