Sandy & Rafe: Second Place Heart — Jean C. Joachim

Torn between two men proposing marriage, Sandy accepted Lyle, and moves in with him. After months of watching their love slip away, she thinks things couldn't get worse. Wrong. Sliding from heartbreak to humiliation on national television, Sandy becomes gossip fodder from coast-to-coast. Deserted by family and friends, she suffers the consequences of her mistake alone. After all, life doesn't offer up second chances, does it? Devastated when Sandy turned him down, Rafe couldn't stop thinking about her. Witnessing her hideous public spectacle, his heart aches. How he wishes she had selected him. But it's too late, now. He's heading for a job in England in a few weeks. There's no time for a second chance. And, as everyone knows, wishes don't come true, do they?