Description
Men. They were an unknown quantity to Darcie. She'd never known her father or lived in the same house with a man. So when her mother remarries, and she comes to stay with her aunt and uncle for the honeymoon period, her emotions are running high. Particularly when she sees pictures of her father for the first time in an old family album. Could this smiling, curly-haired, handsome man really be her father? And if so, why had he left her? And where is he now?
And then there's Roman. He's the seal-keeper at the zoo where Darcie has a summer job. The first time she sees him, she's stunned. He looks like a god to her, with the sun radiating like a halo through his dark curly hair. And the way he has with the animals! Some kind of special, almost magical touch-as though they only have to hear his voice to obey, as though they'd do anything for him. And it doesn't take Darcie long to decide that she too would do anything for Roman.
So as the summer wears on Darcie's thoughts swing between two subjects: her father and how to find him; and Roman and how to please him, anxious to find the male love that has always eluded her, and that she knows so little about...
