Love Betrayed

by Robert Roughton

Overview

Love Betrayed is a rite of passage, a maturation story, one full of pain and heartache. It follows the changes in a popular, high achieving, high school student, following the death of his closest friend, and developing love for a classmate.

It exposes a full range of emotions and experiences including insensitive parents who don't listen, sex, school work, jobs, male friendship and what friendship can be between a girl and a boy, relationships; truth and lies, love and lust, suicide and death.

The story explores the paradox of the narrator being successful in school in so many ways - academically, at sport, with male friendships as well as with the girls - while suffering great trauma through the loss of two very important friendships/relationships.

The narrator's confusion between love and lust is explored in the story. His lack of understanding of the girls around him – what they are looking for, what they need.

While experienced with sex, he is completely unsure about what he is experiencing with the girl he loves: something far deeper. Yet he still wants sex and jeopardizes this closest relationship in order to have it

The narrator's self-examination is full of uncertainty and confusion, trying to understand what is happening with the girl he loves. Selfish and self-oriented he struggles for a more mature outlook without knowing what maturity is or how to get it. It is so hard for him to make sense of, he has no perspective with which to comprehend or draw the right conclusions.

Confronting his girlfriend's mother, he is threatened with consequences for him and his family and watches both their worlds fall apart.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940167074149
Publisher:	RuffPub
Publication date:	01/21/2023
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Robert Roughton’s background is in corporate management with Australian and multinational corporations in the electronics industry. In addition to managing his own software company providing specialized support to corporations including one of the world’s largest emergency medical support corporations and several multinational banks he is currently a customer technical support manager with a major multinational consumer electronics corporation.

His academic achievements include a Master of Management, MBA and Master of Arts (Writing)

Robert has a deep interest in flying, and accumulated several million air miles in the course of his career. Being a very frequent customer on several airlines, he has been invited into the cockpit on several occasions, including a memorable sideslip landing at Singapore Changi in severe weather. Yes! The Captain really does say “I have the aircraft” when he takes control from the First Officer at the last moment.

His flight experience at the controls includes light planes and a helicopter, and he has used his observations and knowledge of cockpit and airport procedures, plus the technical aspects and flight characteristics of the various aircraft in Natanz to ensure the in-flight action is true to life.

He has been on aircraft that have suffered an engine out during takeoff, an in-flight engine fire and a wind sheer incident at Dallas Fort Worth, plus dozens of inevitably bumpy sideslip landings and go-arounds at Wellington, New Zealand.

His first book, Natanz combines his interests in aircraft and politics and is particularly relevant to current Middle East politics.

His second book, Love Betrayed explores teenage love, betrayal and suicide.

Robert’s latest book Scrivener V3 for Windows is a visual tutorial on the program he uses in all his writings. This book explains how to get the most from Scrivener from first jottings to self publishing in multiple formats on all the popular author platforms. This book will be released alongside the Scrivener V3 Windows release, now anticipated for late 2020.