A True Tale of Love, Deceit, and Serial Adultery. Award Winning novelist, Belinda, shares the true stories of her outrageous father. Joe Vasquez married Andi Austin and kept a huge secret from her. Joe had a wife and four children hidden away in another state. Belinda's father lied to her mother about being a single man, making Belinda and her three siblings bastards, and their mother a fool. With an eighth grade education and no skills to support her four children, Andrea Austin was trapped in a bigamous marriage where there could never be a divorce from Joe's first wife, a staunch Catholic. A chronic womanizer, Joe was a man who lived by his own rules. When Belinda was born in Pomona, California, Joe was with a girlfriend and failed to pick up his wife and newborn at the hospital. Do you know what it's like for a newborn to have to hitchhike home?