Guardian of Deceit

Darwin Hastings is seventeen and his dying aunt sends him from Pittsburgh to New York to a new guardian a famous wealthy football player. He is excited and afraid; he wants to recapture the love he knew with his parents before they died and become a doctor like his father. But in his new home of celebrities crooks untrustworthiness and excessively wealthy deviants lust and want thwart his search for selfless caring love and in his quest to become a doctor he discovers the altruism of health care and scientific discovery riddled with profit motivation and deficient moral standards. A finalist in the 2012 William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition.