| From the New York Times bestselling author of Cocoon (which was made into an Academy Awardwinning movie) comes a sci-fi adventure about family, love, and, in a universe teeming with life, deciding who and what are the aliens.Six single, semi-retired, older women are inseparable friends. But their lives start to go haywire when mischievous Rosie submits her friends names to an ad soliciting Mail Order Brides for Farmers& Miners-Distant Locations. A few weeks later, as the six women are driving along a lonely beach road, their vehicle suddenly begins to shake, the sky grows dark, an eerie light envelops the van, and ZAP-its gone! Exactly three years later, the van reappears on the same road. But this time, the women appear to be thirty years younger-and theyre all pregnant! The distant locations advertised were, in fact, elsewhere in our galaxy. A process, required for deep space travel, has somehow reversed their aging. They are happy with their new lives. However, a universal law requires that babies of mixed-mating be born on the mothers home planet, forcing their return. But as they re-adapt to life on earth, surprises and problems arise as theyre faced with a media circus, doctors, nurses, police, priests, and nuns, not to mention their new humanoid mates. In Sapersteins wacky, comedic-drama tradition thats out of this world, Snatched builds to an exciting, uplifting climax that celebrates life, love, and the universal condition known as family. |
