Jessica Wheeler came from an affluent background, very loving parents, and all which that implies. She, however, like everyone else, couldn't be protected from a broken heart.
Traipsing across Europe was the beginning of her mended heart, but it took considerably longer to regain her self-confidence.
he left her posh, comfortable Rhode Island home to attend a women's college in Texas.
In Texas she formed a close friendship with roommate, Mary Ann and found an abandoned cowboy hat with a note inside. She desperately tried to find the owner. Eventually she met handsome Pete Andrews, the widowed veterinarian, at a weekend rodeo in Albuquerque. It seemed their paths were meant to collide. Pete saw the cowboy hat with the beautiful note sown inside. Imagine everyone's astonishment to learn that the hat had belonged to Pete's late wife. This was much more than coincidence.