For Better, For Worse, Forever

For Better, For Worse, Forever is a young adult novel by Lurlene McDaniel, published in August 1997.

[1] It continues the story of April Lancaster, which began in the novel Till Death Do Us Part.

The novel begins at the close of the previous story as April is crowned the winner of a beauty pageant for young women with chronic medical conditions.

Despite living with tempestuous headaches, April found love with a race car driver Mark Gianni.

She keeps to herself for a while, until one day her mother talks to her and suggests that if it had happened that April had died and Mark had lived, she would want him to be happy and to move on.