In Love Scars, Book Two of The Love Rescue Me Trilogy, our anti-hero Jack St. Clair has become rich and divorced. He raises his spirited daughter Rosie St. Clair, as a single parent. Together the two St. Clair's discover their unusual bond when meet a mystical shaman on the island of Maui. Later, still on Maui, the pair witness an authentic Christmas miracle. On Sept 11, 2001, Jack is in a hostile meeting on the 39th Floor of the North Tower at the World Trade Center. Heeding the repressed advice of a proven psychic, he leaves his new partners behind and makes his way back to his hotel. For the next several years, Jack doesn't draw a sober breath. He ends up broke and hopeless at the Los Angeles Rescue Mission. Diane Dante, the love of his life, is on a ten city trip with her church, visiting various missions. Jack and Diane have been looking for each other for almost thirty-five years. After seeing Diane from across a crowded room, the newly sober Jack, is too overcome with shame and embarrassment to approach the very women he has been searching for all these years. Jack and Diane are finally reunited. Soon enough, they begin a charity called the We Are Family Foundation. And that, my friends, is where Book Three, Love Is All You Need begins.
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, City Garment Finishers