The Presidential Pretender - Large Print - Paperbackby Jay Lumbert (Author) The Presidential Pretendert Sammantha Starodubov was a well adjusted twelve year old, with two loving parents, many close friends and a horse named Starr. Her parents, both physicists, had left Russia to live the America Dream. Everything changed when Sammantha came home to find her parents murdered. She was taken back to her homeland and treated like a circus animal. They told that "The Americans" had killed her parents and