White Leather and Flawed Pearls

Three years ago, in 1983, Miranda Falconer (Andy) kidnapped Tommi Rhymer, the rock star she adored, and kept him prisoner in her family's cabin in the Sierra, until he calmed down, sobered up, and became a friend deserving of Andy's love. Then he and his partner in their rock duo, Belshangles, and also his partner in a personal way, returned to England, to resume their extravagant life together.

Over the past three years, Tommi and Andy have stayed in touch through the mail, and now that Belshangles is back in the States, stopping over in San Francisco, the two friends get together. They find a strong attachment remains between them, and before long they're off to Reno to get married. Tom (as he now prefers to be called in private) promises his new bride that they'll have a proper wedding when the time is right.

Left behind in California, Harlan becomes Andy's friend. He helps her hunt for the perfect wedding dress. To her wonder and distress, Andy finds herself falling in love with Harlan, and he returns her affection, which puts her in a state of mind and heart for which her Catholic girlhood has not prepared her...