Publisher's Synopsis
Believe in miracles?
It's hard to go through life without your people: Sara Zane's grandparent's fled Warsaw and worked their way across America chasing the American Dream as itinerant farm workers when her sixteen-year old mother, Gina falls in love with Hollywood stuntman Malibu surfer Tom Zane and elopes but not before leaving her diary with Velzy for safe-keeping. Tom is tragically killed a few days later. Alone, afraid to go home and pregnant Sara is taken in by a childless Irish couple from Lorimor, Iowa. For the first time in her life, she has a real home and gives birth to baby Gina but her joy is short lived as she succumbs to peritonitis, orphaning Gina, leaving her with a ribbon around her wrist and a tiny brass key. The musical Irish couple adopt Gina and raise her as their own. Gina grows up in a world music and will become a huge country/western star. He best friend, confidant and and protector during those years was her next door neighbour and 'tearaway', RJ Tibbs who'd be a bull riding superstar before he was twenty. Like most young men with more money than good sense and a low alcohol tolerance, RJ runs afoul of the law and is given the choice of joining the Marines or jail. Promising to write, her, RJ goes to Vietnam and sees things that no one should ever be exposed to and Gina loses touch with her soulmate.