The Curious Confusion of Kate

Kate slowly comes to the realization that her strange fuzziness may not be the result of her recent trauma. The man she planned to marry has been murdered in front of her and she thought it might be normal to go through the ensuing days in a sort of fog. When she begins to wonder if his brother, who claims to be befriending her, is giving her some sort of drugs, she panics, scrambles to her car and escapes. She drives herself to an airport and boards a plane, anything to get away, before she succumbs to haziness and falls asleep. When she wakes up, she is already feeling clearer headed. She shares her suspicions with a sympathetic seatmate, telling him just enough to arouse his protective instincts. He offers her a room on a houseboat, a place to stay while she sorts things out. She gratefully accepts. She has always wanted to live on a houseboat. Is she leaping from the frying pan to the fire? Trading one seemingly kindly jailor for another? Who is this stranger with the jealous parrot and unusual friends? When bullets begin coming her way, she has to pull herself together, figure things out and choose sides.