Half Moon, Full Heart
by Gene Cartwright
© 2012 Gene Cartwtright
A love story as they were once told.
Prologue:
Novel
Their first time alone, really alone.—
“And they danced. Bathed in the soft glow of a half moon, they danced. David Joe held Jessie Marie as close as he knew how—as close as he dared, and they danced. He held her so close he felt their hearts beating in unison like a lovers’ duet, and they danced. They danced to every song that followed; until the battery in the small transistor radio grew weak, and the melodic sounds of The Platters faded. And even after the radio fell silent, and the night grew old, they danced.”
Log Line/Brief Summary
September, 2000
“I married a whole wife.
I deserve a whole wife.”
Following a misdiagnosis of breast cancer, and before it proved to be a traumatic error, Rachel Marin’s producer/director husband, David abandons her.Rachel’s world collapses. A beautiful, successful, professional woman—she attempts suicide.
At thirty-eight, Rachel was just divorced and clawing her way up from the basement of her life. Her heart was broken; her dreams shattered. On a cool September morning, she packs her life away into every corner of her vintage ’65 Mustang and leaves California.
Along the way to an uncertain destination, a detour through Rosedale, a small, north-central Texas town; a 50 year-old wedding dress in a quaint dress shop, and a chance telling of a five decades-old love story, opens a magical door.
The legendary love story of David Joe Fallon, Jr. and Jessie Marie Taylor, who first met at age nine, inspires another real-life story—one Rachel could never have dreamed. She finds herself solving a mystery, helping to write a final chapter to David Joe's and Jessie Marie's love story that no one could have imagined, and discovering a reason to live again.
Half Moon, Full Heart
252 p. Hardcover ISBN: 0-9649756-1-0
Published by Gene Cartwright & Falcon Creek Books
Copyright 2012 Gene Cartwright
Falcon Creek Books
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All My Novels Begin With a poem.
The following is dedicated to my late mother.
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Poem for Mother:
My Mother’s Voice
© 2012 Gene Cartwright
She spoke to me
in a calming, melodic voice,
though I yet longed for first breath.
Even then, my heart beat to the rhythm of her soul;
It marched to the cadence of her pure spirit;
It flourished in the still comfort of her angelic being,
And I heard my mother’s voice.
She spoke to me
in a quiet and sure voice,
YOU ARE READING
Half Moon, Full Heart
Chick-LitHalf Moon, Full Heart is a "love story," the way love stories were once told. “I married a whole wife. I deserve a whole wife.” Following a misdiagnosis of breast cancer, and before it proved to be a traumatic error, Rachel Marin’s producer/direct...
