Star Crossed

Her parents said, "You're marrying a seventeen-year-old Jewish high school student?"

His parents said, "You're in love with a twenty-one-year-old Catholic senior in college?"
 
And then the fun began . . . . Bette, on a student-teaching assignment, meets Richard in the teachers' lounge. Seven weeks later, they're engaged!
Richard and Bette manage to keep their young love hidden through clandestine post office boxes, dates in out-of-the-way places, and a loyal roommate sworn to keep their secret. But that secret comes out in the worst possible way, when their engagement announcement appears in the local paper a week early . . . before Richard has worked up the nerve to tell his parents!
Slip into New York City's legendary Playboy Club with Bette and (underage) Richard.
Enter the devious mind of her two-timing psychologist.
Share their concern as they hide their love from school administrators who could expel them, and cheer for the housemother who winks and looks the other way.
Throw into the mix outraged parents, scornful siblings, snickering friends, legal obstacles, and uncooperative clergy.
They're always on the run from someone.
But then, who can catch this couple in his Jaguar XKE? It's a hell of a ride!
Star Crossed is a memoir of humor, heartbreak, and hope.