Hitch-hiking Marine Vince Riley feels he has met the woman who picks him up before. / During a stay at her family's summer home, friendless Brenda Alden traps a strange creature in a quarry and befriends it.
When Ruth picks up a Marine on his way back to camp, he seems to think he has lived through the experience before -- he even can predict what she will say and do next. When they stop at a roadside café for coffee, the Marine becomes more and more certain that he, Ruth, and others are re-living the same things over and over, "until they get it right."—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
Brenda is vacationing with her family on an island when she comes across a creature in the woods. At first afraid of it, she manages to imprison it in a pit. Since she has no friends due to her bad behavior, she finds that the creature might be her only hope of being loved.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
