Archie was looking for something to eat as soon as possible. A man at the last gas station told him about the diner he just went into- the Double Star Diner. Being homeless and drifting had not been in his grand plan for this year. He had very little to call his own now. Settling down and starting a family, being a grown up had been his plan. Betsy worked at the diner and she can’t seem to keep her eyes off Archie since he walked in. Betsy loves her job at the diner but not her uniform. Archie noticed Betsy’s figure but he had no right to with his life a train wreck . Archie said he would rather be called Radar. Betsy told Archie her trailer park owner needed a handyman which included an old trailer with the basics and a paycheck she offered to take him there after she got off work. Betsy had created a pseudo family for herself from the diner. They were wonderful and full of life and very nosy. Betsy had been the victim of a brutal kidnapping but her pseudo helped. Betsy can see that Archie had been hurt and she feels she can only hurt him and he doesn’t need that. She tries to push Archie away a lot but he isn’t going anyway. Since their trailers are pretty close he can hear when Betsy has nightmares from her criminal ordeal/. He is there for her when she cries and needs him to lean on. But he also gives Betsy the freedom to move at her own pace.
I had mixed feelings about this book. I did enjoy it but I won’t be reading this a second time. I felt it was a little too much insta/love but on the other hand I liked Archie and Betsy together. I also really liked how Archie stood by Betsy even though she kept trying to push him away. I felt there could have been a little less sex scenes in this book. I would have liked more background on Archie. I liked the pace and plot. I read this in one setting. I liked that Betsy was willing to help Archie find a job and a place to live right away. I felt there was some unfinished parts in this like with Betsy and her kidnapper’s daughter. So as I said I had mixed feelings.