Half Moon, Full Heart

Half 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/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 met at age nine, inspires another real-life story—one Rachel could never have dreamed.
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Once upon a time,
it was 1955. Eisenhower (‘Ike’) was President; a stamp cost three cents; Popsicles came two to a package; Elvis was twenty; and against all odds, young David Joe Fallon, Jr. and Jessie Marie Taylor were in love. The End.

And the story may well have ended there, were it not for the latter. It has been said, few younger than twenty or so could possibly know true love. That may be true for most, but not for Jessie Marie and David Joe, both of whom lived in Rosedale—a small, north-central Texas town-back in the 1950s.
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So Rachel finds herself solving a mystery, helping to write a final chapter no one could have imagined, and discovering a reason to live again.