New York: Putnam, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - An "unlikely love story which unites April Ruth Bates, 16-year-old sister of the town's two classiest prostitutes, with Foster Williams, a Chesapeake Bay bridge-builder twice her age. . . The misunderstandings, frustrations, insecurities, and gossip that undermine the relationship and tear it apart, and the love and maturity that mend it and make the marriage stronger than ever, are presented here in a poignant but realistic novel of developing love and adjustment to married life." 270 pp. ISBN: 0-399131981.