Joe Yancey

Predestine Romance: in the Great Depression Joe Yancey

Predestine Romance is a love story of a wealthy family's Christian daughter falling in love with a poor farm boy at their senior prom. He battles the Great Depression to become eligible to marry the girl in a small town's caste society.

In a dream she tells boy God's voice appears and ordain they become husband and wife.

Despite sweetheart's mother forbiding dates with the boy, they enjoy secret meetings.

While working on a yacht for a year's round-the-world trip, the boy writes mother he dances with yacht owner's daughter.

Christian sweetheart gets depressed reading letter and allows mother to invite her old boyfriend for dates. Soon mother plans big wedding for daughter to marry old boyfriend.

Three days before wedding, daughter leaves home at midnight to avoid the wedding. Daughter says she doesn't love the old boyfriend.

The shock causes daughter's mother to suffer light stroke which damages her brain to the extent she has hallucinations. She is placed in a hospital for therapy.

Farm boy avoids romance with yacht owner's daughter and returns home to hugs and kisses from sweetheart.

Mother is still in hospital and sweetheart's father arranges for their wedding.