DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla., Oct. 19, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tigers can be likened to damaging secrets harbored by some ordinary people who choose to defy laws and morally accepted standards. They are fearful of exposure and go into their own brand of hiding. But secrets are protected by lies, and lies become a way of life.
If one learns that a person close to them has broken the law, should he be shut out of one's life? Readers will witness a touching story of love and acceptance as author Robert C. Wentworth introduces his new book Keeping Tigers.
Author Wentworth introduces readers to Kyle Hawkins, an eighteen-year-old boy who appears at Jack Barrington's lawn one day for a lawn cleanup. Impressed by his work, Jack hires Kyle to be his gardener, and Kyle goes on to become a dear friend of Jack and his wife Lila. As months go by, Jack becomes attached to the boy and takes him out fishing, finds more jobs for him so he can give him extra money, and takes him to their doctor when Kyle suffers from severe headaches. Lila lovingly treats Kyle as the son she never had.
But Kyle's background remains a mystery to the couple as he never shares anything about himself -- aside from the dubious information that he is from Macon, Georgia. Things get more complicated when Jack investigates the boy's background and finds that he is involved in a robbery and attempted murder. Kyle flees and faces a heartbreaking dilemma -- turn himself in for a crime he never committed, or face the unknown as a wandering homeless fugitive. In his struggle for survival, he chooses the latter, which is his ruination.
Keeping Tigers is riveting fiction that not only proves a couple's overwhelming concern for the stranger they learned to love; it also shows how poverty and hopelessness forces a person to do things that were initially against his principles. Wentworth shows his literary acumen as he skillfully weaves together the exciting events around which Kyle's life revolved and portrays the ongoing psychological battle within him. For more information on this book, log on to www.Xlibris.com.
Keeping Tigers * by Robert C. Wentworth
Publication Date: October 16, 2009
Trade Paperback; $19.99; 209 pages; 978-1-4415-6179-4
Cloth Hardback; $29.99; 209 pages; 978-1-4415-6180-0
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