Kurzbeschreibung
Helena Saunders has not fallen in love since she was sixteen, not since she defied her father by dating Timmy, a boy her father felt she was too young to be serious about. Then her father up and died of a heart attack, and Timmy moved away. Blaming herself for her father's death, she buries herself in books, becoming a librarian and sometimes dating Robert Garza, a roughneck in the oil fields of Odessa, Texas, but she won't let herself get too involved romantically, afraid of emotional commitment, much to her sister Kathy's dismay. Kathy and her husband Frank can't have children though they have tried.
Helena thinks she's happy, has everything figured out, until one evening when Frank and Kathy leave for the bowling alley and a very tall and handsome blond stranger knocks on the door, wanting to rent the back room. Suddenly, Helena's world is completely shaken, so mesmerized is she by this mysterious man. She finds herself falling in love with him immediately, but it isn't long and she begins to realize that maybe he's not quite human.
Helena thinks she's happy, has everything figured out, until one evening when Frank and Kathy leave for the bowling alley and a very tall and handsome blond stranger knocks on the door, wanting to rent the back room. Suddenly, Helena's world is completely shaken, so mesmerized is she by this mysterious man. She finds herself falling in love with him immediately, but it isn't long and she begins to realize that maybe he's not quite human.
