Publisher's Synopsis
Born and raised on a Nevada ranch, Her mother died when she was only seven. She never knew her father.Raised by her aunt, her mother's only sister, Her aunt also passed away.Selling the ranch, Stella used the money to pay for her education at Berkeley, Where she studied to be an astronomer.Her greatest passion.Even though she was forced to endure the bigotry and negativity of the male students, Stella fought her way through four years of ridicule before she graduated with honors.Her eyes and heart set on a small piece of land in a small but thriving community called Hollywood, she decided to settle there and build an observatory to study the stars.She always felt she was different. She wasn't sure why. Until two men entered her life and turned it upside down. She began to realize her life was in danger. She also discovered, she may not be completely human. She kept her mother's old diaries. They spoke very fondly of a man her mother was close to.But her mother had written many strange things in her diary.Stella could not understand them, until she decided to put the matter on the back shelf of her mind. Focusing on the stars was her main goal. But what was she's searching for?Her true origin?Her father?The truth about her past and her mothers past?Little did she know the earth was in danger.Who is he? Who was her mother writing about in her diary?Where did he go?Was it her father?And if it was, why did he leave and why did he never come back?And why didn't she know him?But deep down inside she longed to know him.By the time she was twenty, she had no more new information. Should she quit seeking?Should she be content studying the stars, researching and never knowing the truth about herself?Two men had come into her life. One of them was a cowboy, a rancher. The other man was a drifter, or so it seemed. One was a comforter, the other seeking something, or someone he never thought he would find. It was all a mystery to Stella. And then, something lit a flame inside her. It was a flame no one could quench. Her passion and all that was around her fanned that flame into a fire. That fire turned into a raging firestorm that left her so hungry and with such an insatiable desire to find the truth, she was willing to go to extreme measures to go on a quest that would eventually transcend time and space to find the answers she was seek
