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NY Times best-selling author David L. Robbins (War of the Rats, The Devil's Waters, The Clear Quarter) creates a modern comic fable of love, depth and insightful laughter. Wes Turner, an aging, careworn helicopter pilot in South Carolina, learns out of nowhere that he is a dad and grandfather. His new family has found him and embraces him, but Wes doesn't trust that love can come without a price tag. A continent away in California, Dante LaBella can't commit to his beloved partner Natalie; he breaks up with her one way too many times, then she won't take him back. In an instant of metaphoric pleading, he offers her the choice of a finger as a display of his devotion. Natalie calls for him through to it, selecting the pinky of his still left palm. "The love I want together with you," she says, "the love I want you to understand, is forever. Nothing's forever like nine fingertips." Dante recoils from lowering off his little finger. He seeks counsel from a pal, an area radio personality who inadvertently puts the quandary on the air. The response from the general public is swift, noisy and common as the cost of true love is weighed out in public. Most callers say from the crazy idea, but a few, some sad and knowing voices, concur that true love is worth any price, even lowering off a pinky. "Yeah. Which has a butter knife," says one respondent. Another listener to the broadcast is the most effective talk show variety in the us: Nanette Towne. Nanette convinces Dante and Natalie to be guests on her countrywide show, where before America she asks the question: at what cost love? Back in South Carolina, Wes, observing Nanette's show, at last sees the answer to the same using up question in his own life: what things to purchase love? He can determine the price love wants is designed for him to operate a vehicle cross-country and make certain that Dante pays the price too: Dante must give love his finger.
