About the book: 1993 / Mary Horton is content with her comfortable, secluded lifestyle... until she meets Tim. A handsome young man with the mind of a child - a gentle outcast in a cruel, unyielding world - he brightens the darkness of Mary's days with his childish innocence. And he will ruin the planned life of a lonely, respectable middle-aged spinster with the forbidden hope of a very unusual love.