title: Kept
author: Lord, Sheldon
description: MY NAME'S MARK TAGGERT . . .
  I'm a drifter, a bum, a nobody. No job, no money, no future. I'm on the Thruway with a laundry bag over my shoulder and my thumb stuck out in the air.
  Then the most beautiful girl in the world picks me up. She falls in love with me. I fall in love with her.
  Nice? Yeah, sure.
  I'm still Mark Taggert-a drifter, a bum, a nobody. And she's Elaine Rice-a Park Avenue playgirl with more gold than Fort Knox.
  So where do I go from here?
  No one but Sheldon Lord could have written this book, probing so deeply into the inner reaches of human relations. This is a novel you won't be able to put down