A Broken Candy Heart

One bride, two grooms, two governors, a prostitute with a pet rat, and a well-seasoned bull rider are among the characters who weave this into a colorful love story-twice. Meet Kathleen on her 19th birthday when she stumbles against Daniel MacEachern, a handsome Marine. Before sunset, the two are wed. Daniel returns to his duties and Kathleen joins her new husband's family in Texas. Their idyllic love eventually ends in excruciating pain . . . proof that fairy tales don't always end in happily-ever- after . . . sometimes, they just end. Kathleen knows echoing loneliness without Daniel until she meets and marries a champion bull rider, Glenn Kilgore, who takes her beyond inexperience to places where love is sometimes tempered by heartbreak. In anger over a contemplated affair, Glenn returns to his native Montana . . . Kathleen follows. There she is met with rejection, a child is killed, and relationships are sorely tested.