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In
need of extra income, Dane Caravelle applies for a new program that
allows other people to “rent” her and lets them essentially live her
life. This groundbreaking scientific technology is meant to allow those
who may be disadvantaged or disabled to experience a normal life.
Although it requires rigorous testing to become a rental, Dane is
ecstatic when she’s approved.
She’s nervous in the beginning and is assured
she won’t even know when her renter is observing her unless she checks
the app, but that hasn't been her experience. Nudges here and there.
Feeling as if someone is watching her. And was that a man she saw
reflected in her eyes when she looked in the mirror? The program
promised only females would be paired with females. Who is he? Or
rather, what
is he? The nudges turn into phone calls, then
voicemails, and she quickly learns that we’re definitely not alone in
this universe. There are others other there, other species from other
worlds, and they’re just looking to survive…or so she’s told. Despite
warnings from her friends, she agrees to help the stranger. But is this
“alien” real, or is she being led on? Either way, she discovers she’s
grown to care for him. And that’s just the beginning of her problems. Warning! Contains two-second voicemails, strange science, stranded aliens, a phone app, grocery shopping, once for yes - twice for no, and an improbable love that began galaxies apart. |
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Megan Kolt has been trapped, a prisoner
in her own body, for the past six years. Her husband, Turner Kolt, has
watched her slowly waste away in a coma, but he’s been assured her brain
is functioning and she still has her senses. When offered a chance for
his wife to live vicariously through someone else through a fairly new
service from Rall Rentals, he wants to let his wife
experience…something. Anything. Wanting to use her own life to help
others, Jory Wittenhouse applies for the Rall Rentals program to allow
others who are less fortunate to live through her. After vigorous
testing, she’s approved and given a special case, not the usual disabled
or handicapped client. The renter is completely comatose and paralyzed,
but still reacts to stimuli.
She’s told the woman’s family wants her to spend whatever time
she has left being happy, and Jory wants to give her that. Turner has his reservations, and
questions are raised. He proposes the opportunity to meet the rental, if
she’s willing, to put his own mind at ease, under the guise of letting
Megan see his face one last time. He wasn’t expecting her to be perfect.
For Megan, that is. He wants Megan to experience what it’s
like to be alive again, to be loved, and that’s why he’s attracted to
Jory. Because Megan is in there somewhere, or so he’s trying to convince
himself to ease the guilt. But as much as he wants Megan to live again,
Turner isn’t living himself. Time and love will make that decision
for him.
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