Five O'Clock Shadow — Susan Slater

As the great balloon bearing the image of a clock swoops across the River Grande, Pauly Caton watches her husband of four days fall from the sky. Who is the naked child who scrambles from the gondola who flees when it strikes a sandbar? Why would he have been up with Randy and the pilot on the honeymoon ride she was too chicken to join? As Pauly tries to put her shattered life together, she discovers the lies have been Randy's. A trip to El Paso uncovers more mysterious acts and points her towards the truth. But will she live long enough to find it?