01151cam a2200289 4500 943220062 TxAuBib 20230819120000.0 010315s2001||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780399148019 acid-free paper 0399148019 acid-free paper TxAuBib Hepinstall, Kathy. The absence of nectar / Kathy Hepinstall. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2001. 304 p. ; 22 cm. Alice is a precocious 11 year old growing up in rural East Texas with one wish on her mind: Get rid of Simon Jester. Simon is the man who saved her mother from drowning. Simon is her mother's hero, her savior and her new husband. He's an enigmatic man whose own family mysteriously drowned. 20230819. Rural Families Fiction. Stepfathers Fiction. Remarriage Fiction. Girls Fiction. Texas, East Fiction. Suspense fiction. Bildungsromans. TXFRA