The Drummer's Wife

Do you believe in love at first sight? Wealthy, successful novelist Edward MacDonough was totally stricken by it, one night, twenty years ago. The moment he laid eyes on her, he just knew.

But the four words she spoke to him in the soft light of a night club shattered his illusions. When he approached her and asked who she was, she replied in a sweet sad southern drawl: "I'm the drummer's wife."

Just home from the Vietnam war and now with a broken heart, he headed west to California to make his mark as a writer. Through fifteen years of impoverished struggle, the image of her occupied his mind more than did his writing. His bewildering love for her only grew with the years. And as the years passed, so grew his despair.

Now rich and famous, but living hermit-like in a single upstairs room of his Tudor mansion, with a Porsche he rarely drives in the garage, Edward MacDonough cannot go on living any longer without her. His obsession sets him on a course to find her.

But even his own creative mind could not have imagined what would happen when he does find her.