Bøker av Geffrey Von Gerlach

DEATHBED KISSES is a collection of quirky and humourous stories, told from a gay perspective and designed to illustrate the frustrations and obsessions of love, where to find it, and how to get the ultimate revenge. From the mystery of a suitcase walled up inside the closet of a Hollywood bungalow for fifty years, to the hustler who falls in love with a client, or the young boy who develops a crush on the matinee idol upstairs boarder, the stories of DEATHBED KISSES are profoundly universal and uniquely entertaining. DEATHBED KISSES is a sampling of ten intriguing stories of relationship and love, some with seemingly insurmountable obstacles, others with a whimsy and penchant for the absurd that make them universal tales for anyone, gay or straight, who has ever searched for that elusive thing called love. 37 GRAMERCY PARK - The reputation of a celebrated Manhattan man-about-town is put in jeopardy when an amourous classmate from a forgotten life threatens to expose him for the imposter he is. JAVA JITTERS - An aging lothario attempts to woo a dazzling counter boy at the local coffee shop only to find that he has gone to a lot of trouble for nothing. UNDER THE HOLLYWOOD SIGN - The mystery of what became of aspiring actress Peggy DeCarlo and why her suitcase had been walled up inside a closet of a Hollywood bungalow for over half a century is finally revealed. DEATHBED KISSES - A movie buff agrees to tutor a hunky convert to the gay lifestyle, only to find that the line between teacher and lover can blur with both poignant and life-changing consequences. RULES OF THE GAME - Two middle-aged women, who enjoy a tradition of vacationing together with their philandering husbands, have the last laugh. M4M - An amusing but unsettling story of a Hollywood hustler who decides to better his lot in life and falls in love with a handsome "straight" client who he is determined to seduce into becoming his husband. A FABULOUS WOMAN - An alluring woman leads a love

In BEEHIVE ARIZONA, a Geologist and his wife, a successful Journalist, forsake the crime and congestion of Los Angeles in search of a "safer, more perfect" place to live. They find it in Beehive, Arizona, a small defunct mining town in southern Arizona with all the charm of a Norman Rockwell painting. What they had not bargained for is a disquieting undercurrent of misguided jingoism, a secret vein or silver and a supernatural evil that grips the minds of the town's inhabitants and reaches to the very core of the city's foundation. It is the story of a couple, lost in the middle years of their marriage, childless and with hollow success, trying to find each other and a new start in their lives. By confronting the unbelievable smallness of the "perfect American community" and exposing the sinister cult of the Brotherhood of the Bees, Laura and Kent De Salvo discover, not only a weapon against the clandestine evil that grips the town, but a rekindled passion in their relationship and a realization that "safe and perfect" are only relative terms.