Baby tells the
plight of a poor young woman, Netty, who escapes a brutal and violent marriage.
Netty’s husband, twenty-two years her senior, is a corrupt judge during the time
of prohibition (1929). As a lawyer years earlier, he discovered Netty inherited
land and money she knows nothing about, and he married Netty to get her wealth.
When he plans Netty’s death several years later, she escapes to a childhood
hiding place. It is there she encounters a dying Oolahan, a creature who
crash-landed on earth. That’s where the story gets incredibly interesting.
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| Author J.K. Accinni |
The Oolahan can heal living things, but not themselves.
Netty nurses the creature back to life, and they establish a lifelong bond. Astonishingly,
Netty’s dilapidated farm undergoes a metamorphosis that defies logic as the
Oolahan gets stronger, and J.K. Accinni develops the relationship between the
two so carefully the reader will fall in love with them both. Hard work brings some
success to Netty, but she can scarcely keep up. She subsequently saves Wil, a
younger man, from freezing to death, and the two become close as he pitches in
to help with the chores. Wil eventually discovers “Baby,” the Oolahan, and the
three of them blossom into a loving family.
There are, however, downsides. Both Wil and Netty are
changed, physically and mentally, by Baby. Alas, Netty’s husband remains a mean-spirited brute with far
reaching influence. When her husband re-discovers his wife, and realizes his
claim to her inheritance could be challenged, he moves to have everyone
associated with her eliminated. Murder after murder follows, and the story of
love becomes one of heartache and horror.
But wait, there’s more. Netty, Baby and Wil have all changed
… to the point they transcend death. And Baby has produced an offspring of his
own. The retributions begin, and we find even the kindest creature imaginable
is capable of vengeance.
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