There are also Consuelo Ly who works with Ford in the security firm, and Kent, Ford's brother. It's always a treat to join the community of Fool's Gold and its fascinating citizens. Ford's plan works, and as an additional bonus Ford gets to prove that sex is something that Isabel enjoys. Maybe if he asks Isabel nicely, she will be his pretend girlfriend until she goes back to New York, and he can get his mother off his back. Of course being on assignment in the service didn't make for any long-term relationships, but now his mother took a booth at the Fourth of July carnival and took applications for a wife for him, and she won't give up bugging him about getting married. When she finds out Ford is back in town they manage to avoid each other for several weeks, but Isabel is determined to break down any embarrassment between them.įord thinks there is something wrong with him it's not that he doesn't like and enjoy women, it's just that when the woman appears to get serious about him, he leaves. Hopefully by then Isabel and her friend Sonia will start their own design company back in New York City. Talk about being clueless! Isabel is running the family bridal gown business until her parents return from a trip around the world, and then they plan to sell it. Sex was never that great, and the scarcity of it during her marriage never bothered her. The awful thing that no one knows is that Eric finally realized he was gay and fell in love. Isabel moved back to Fool's Gold after her divorce from her husband Eric.

Then she finds out Ford has moved back into Fool's Gold to start a security firm. She poured out her heart to him, but never heard back. Isabel, in her teenage mind, loved Ford, and for the next ten years sent him letters after he left town and joined the Navy SEALS. At the age of fourteen, Isabel Beebe's world ended when her older sister broke off her engagement two weeks before her marriage to Ford Hendrix, after cheating on him with his best friend.

Three Little Words by Susan Mallery