Familiar

Joy is a children's book author and illustrator who's recently gone through a divorce. She's lost custody of her son. Now she's moved back to the small Kansas college town where a long-forgotten family property looms.Jake, the part-time caretaker, is probably out of a cushy job with this new owner moving to town. That's okay. Jake is easy going, and this new owner is also a not-bad looking only-slightly-older woman. Maeve Daniels was the wife of a well-to-do South Texas minister. But, alas, a scandal has forced her to hit her mid-forties as a tenant in her aging mother's house. To boot, she is only afforded an adjunct's salary in a third-rate theology department. For Corky, Aunt Maeve and Kansas have been hell on roller-skates. The only relief she got was when she slithered into the cellar of the old nearly-abandoned house next door. Now her hiding place is ruined. How will she get through her summer in exile without...Binx. Binx remembers little Joy. The house has been quiet since the night her father went missing. They took little Joy away from him. All the details will be his to share if only he can get Joy all alone.