The Promise Road
Real love dies hard, if at all. The final chapter, in the mystery surrounding the heart-rending love story of two young, 1950s era small-town Texas lovers, is accidentally written sixty years later, by a young woman heading to Boston - seeking to mend her own broken heart.
She intends only to stop for a brief rest, but is drawn in by the story of Jessie Marie Taylor, and David Joe Fallon, Jr. She discovers their story, and finds her own reasons to live forever.
Who can say where the winding road ends?
On a day Rachel Marin would forever remember, in September of 2000, she sat alone in her small, now empty white-fenced home in South Pasadena, California. She waited for the moment, the knowing that would end her thousand yard stare, end the reminiscing and yank her from her place.
While the stinging words of her recently divorced producer/director husband: “I married a whole wife; I deserve a whole wife,” still rang in her ears, she would, within minutes, close the door to her small home for the last time, and begin a journey—an odyssey leading her to her tomorrow.
Rachel could not have known the path that lay before her. Within days, and miles away, fate would bring her to an unlikely intersection with a story of two young lovers from another time. She would discover how their storybook lives touched so many, more than a half century earlier. This is Rachel’s, and their story, and perhaps even your story. We are certain it is far more than fiction.
Pulitzer-nominated, former Oprah guest. See complete details at GeneCartwright.com.
Gene Cartwright, a native of Texas. He often says it was his great fortune to be born at the right address--his parents.
Gene shared these loving parents with seven siblings. He insists his love of writing and learning was sparked by his mother, who taught him to read when he was barely four. It was his father who, together with his mother, taught him, and all the Cartwright children what to do with the knowledge gained, and to love each other unconditionally.
Gene was fascinated, captured by the freedom reading afforded. What was more, he read and was inspired to put his own words to paper. He has always enjoyed both technical and literary pursuits. He wrote his first novel at 12. (90 pages longhand.)
Gene graduated high school and headed immediately to college (Prairie View A&M.)
Four years later, and for almost 8 years thereafter, during what he now refers to as another life, Gene was an electrical engineer, designing lighting and power distribution systems. A few years later, he saddled up and headed west.
Throughout his engineering pursuits and business activities, Gene continued to write and dream of being a published and a fulltime author. In 1996, that dream was realized. Gene has written 8 novels and several screenplays. For two years, his book tour for 'I Never Played Catch With My Father,' took him from coast to coast:
He has appeared on numerous television and radio programs, including Oprah, NPR stations and countless tv morning shows, news and sports shows. He has been the subject of numerous newspaper and magazine articles.
Gene was the featured author in Ebony Magazine in the November '97 issue.
Finally, Gene's greatest childhood thrill was his very first little league baseball game. And his pet peeve? Something he labels sacrilegious: the use of the aluminum baseball bats.
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