Child Custody Strategies, Inc.
1325 Kuehnle (734) 994-7883 (voice) |
"[Gantlet] is a novel for all fathers, for all wives and mothers, and for all
human beings who hold children precious. The "message" of the novel is a bitter pill
for the members of the court system and all those in society who believe that somehow
fathers are brutes incapable of love and tenderness. Eloquently written with the pacing
of a detective story, laced with allusions to the great heroic epics of Western literature,
at times hilariously funny and at times chillingly gruesome, [Gantlet] is a
page-turner not to be missed."
"Your novel creates a very bleak, dark world; it's a depiction of an almost unbearable
struggle, relieved only by the happy ending. . . Reading [Gantlet] makes me very grateful
that I've never sat [as a judge] in Family Law Court. "
"Thanks much for allowing me to read your manuscript. I did get through it, very pleasantly
I must say, and found it hard to put down. . . I was riveted because I've been there too . . .
The book is powerful for a guy like me"
"There's a lot of love and a lot of spirit in this book - it is really touching to see
[Jason] continue to "be there" for his son. As much as I enjoyed the beginning of the
book, by the time I got to the custody dispute, I just couldn't stop. I was glued to the
book. There's a touch of madness in the situation of the divorced father who fights against
all - a flavor of Ahab against the whale. How could there not be, when the situation is
so crazy-making?"
Martin Chernvil, Fathers For Equal Rights
Susan Finlay, San Diego, California
Bill Fetzner, DADS
Serge Prenge, author, "Still a Dad"
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Gantlet A Love Story Gantlet, A Love Story, is the bittersweet tale of a star-crossed marriage, terminal illness and a father’s anguished 10-year battle against enormous odds to give his only son a future Jason Adams meets the beautiful and brilliant Russet Brockton in graduate school. The attraction is immediate and they soon marry. In the early, blissful stages of their tempestuous relationship, neither Jason nor Russet dreams that Russet is destined to die young from her diabetes. But with the birth of their son, Brandon, the disease takes hold and as Russet's health rapidly deteriorates, so does her mind. She begins to experience periods of depression and paranoia and despite Jason's support, the marriage falls victim to Russet's declining health. Indeed, it is Jason's attempt to turn around Russet's self-destructive behaviors that finally dooms the marriage and when they split over a simple misunderstanding, divorce soon follows. An epic 10-year custody battle ensues as Russet slowly and painfully succumbs to the ravages of her diabetes. The custody conflict is then re-cast, and pits Jason against an unholy alliance: the deceased Russet's gold-digging third husband, her Machiavellian millionaire mother and the mother's conscienceless cronies in a small town court system. Gantlet will touch many readers--those affected directly or indirectly by terminal illness, those who have struggled to save relationships and, most of all, readers who have experienced the unbearable agony of a child custody fight, itself much like a terminal illness.
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