Book excerpt: After 18 years of never dating, Rose McDowell finally breaks out of her naivety by romantic adventures with a sailor, Marvin Brown, much to her father’s chagrin. Complications end that romance only for Rose to fall in love with a drug dealer that doesn’t help for permanency of a romance either when Rose, now AKA Gertrude, is serving time in a penitentiary. Paroled and moving to Denver, a series of unplanned situations bring Gertrude and Marvin together again in the huge metropolitan city, in a hospital no less, via the ski slopes. But does Marvin want her back or does Gertrude for that matter?? Watch for Les’s sequel: Rose AKA Gertrude’s Romance—Marriage Moments.