Purple Hearts

Two young people, Cassie Salazar and Luke Morrow, have been taught to despise each other because of their different political identities - one progressive and one conservative. Then urgent circumstances (financial desperation) cause them to create a joint enterprise (a marriage of convenience), and they gradually learn that their political identities are not so important when the world throws a variety of challenges at them. Much more important are their personal qualities, such as empathy, integrity, consideration, loyalty, and fairness. Perhaps they can even learn to flourish in a marriage of convenience.