The Beloved Son : A Novel

J. Quinn

At 52, Karl Preston is a successful family man, living with his career-minded wife and adult daughter in an affluent town home community in North Carolina. When he gets an urgent call from his father for all of them to come down to his parents' home in Florida, his momentary displeasure with the interruption in his busy life is overshadowed by a concern that something is wrong. He wonders if it is a health problem for one of his parents, or perhaps regarding his decade younger brother Sven, who lives near his parents with his life partner of 26 years, Rob.