Under a Cloud Author:William Sanford Two extraordinary airplane crashes weigh heavy on his mind. One crash in the English Channel claimed a father he never knew; in later years, another crash in the North Atlantic Ocean claimed his endeared mother. Under a Cloud is a love story mystery set in a small town, Locust Plains, and moves with purpose to other parts of the U.S., the Azores... more » and Havana, Cuba. In exhaustive ways, Braxton Samuels and Mariah Martin establish that humanity will live on in joy and sorrow, pain and pleasure, tears and laughter, and all those vices and virtues to which the flesh is heir. The plot embodies insanity, hatred, murder, violence, suicide, sarcasm; yet, politeness; and two lovely people dimmed by the fantasies of youth, but luminous, with towering flames of imperishable human longing, moving emotion, abiding love and innocence as they indulge in consensual consummate love and discover the truth beneath the illusion.« less