Tristan
How I Found True Love and Married Someone Else
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She was sitting in church when first I saw her--the most beautiful girl I had ever seen. Absolutely angelic--glowing from somewhere deep inside. Modest, completely poised, eyes downcast, waiting for the service to begin. The day was Easter, March 29, 1959. I know: this sounds a little too much like Petrarch's first sight of Laura, but I swear it's true, More than half a century later it's still perfectly clear in my mind. Her complexion was perfect and translucent; her chocolate brown hair was turned under in a little flip; she wore a brown tweed skirt and jacket.
I’m afraid I neither heard nor saw anything of the service that day; only thoughts and sights of her.
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Tristan Cosgrove is an attorney with a personal problem. A big one, one that’s both legal and ethical. And a lot of people could get hurt. When he meets Olympia, she is the most beautiful girl he has ever seen. Both are teenagers, and despite their hesitations, fall in love. But they soon learn that their romance is worse than taboo in the conservative state of Nebraska in 1960, because they are first cousins.
When their grandmother and parents discover their feelings, Tristan and Olympia are forced apart. Tradition, family fear, and state law dictate their breakup. Accepting their fate with difficulty, the cousins marry other people. But the heartache of soul mates is not so easily cured.
Now, nearly two decades later, the fire of their suppressed love rekindles, and the two struggle to justify what both so desperately want. Will they succeed in reclaiming their passion without destroying themselves? Or will an irresistible deadly force ruin the Cosgrove family as well as their own integrity and even their lives?
About the Author
Luke Robertson is a fourth-generation Nebraskan. He has published poetry, reviews, and non-fiction and lectured extensively on the arts. He teaches humanities at a small college in the Northeast and lives in the proverbial “little house on the edge of the woods.” An avid reader and book collector, this is his first novel.