Stars in Your Eyes — Emilie Loring

Her friends in Massachusetts had warned her against driving alone to Mexico, and she could just hear the "I-told-you-so's".
A flat tire on a lonely detour in Texas brings Kay Chesney to a seedy bar looking for help. Instead, she is swept into the arms of a tall, dark, stranger who whispers: "Name's Drex. Danger!" There follows an astonishing civil marriage service, in which she is wed to a complete stranger -- or is she? Who and what is Drex Hamilton?

Rescued by the U.S. Border Patrol, Kay resumes her journey. But the incident in Texas returns to haunt her glittering new life at the U.S. Consulate in Old Mexico ...