‘When he noticed her watching him he smiled at her happily, and the smile snatched Mary Horton’s breath from her body in an uncontrolled gasp. She had never gasped so in all her life…’

Tim was twenty five. He had the body of a Greek God, but his mind was the mind of a child. Mary was over forty, a cultured career women living alone. They met by chance in the backwater of a Sydney street. And from that moment a powerful magnetism drew them together. First as friends. Then as much, much more.