I man going home from work meets a young woman sitting on a bench. He befriends her and they become lovers. Her past surfaces and they work to overcome her past
This story is a follow-on to The Barn, which should be read first as it is the entire basis for this story. This story starts off slow, and there is not much sex in the first half-dozen chapters.
He hated people. Hated them, with not so much passion as resignation. Oh, those who stayed away from him were fine, but everyone around him... thus, the ad for a small island, in the middle of a small New York lake, sounded ideal now that he had enough money to retire. No people, no neighbors... The knock on the door during the thunderstorm was a bit of a shock...