GoodReads metadata is 209 pages, rated 4.30 by 10 litizens.
Genre: SyFy; Species: First Contact.
DNA: Minnesota.
Verdict: Brilliantly written.
Tagline: How tall are you?
Who else would be a guest speaker at a UFO conference but two apparitions who are only slightly visible to agnostic Matilda’s gene pool. Were these glimpses the luminous watchers of her Grandmother’s scary stories? Maybe they weren’t made-up stories at all but edited reports of reality. Neutral no more is Matilda. Then there is that stone circle near grandmother’s gingerbread house in the woods that the neighbours sarcastically referred to as RockHinge.
While Tilly is trying to make sense of the spectres only she saw at the conference for a few seconds, believer Burt gets very friendly. So adamant is his friendship that he accepts her story of the spectral beings, and is quite surprised later to learn it is all very real, but to his credit he sticks with her. Believing in aliens is one thing, but contact with them is quite another for Burt. Believing made him feel smug and superior but contact made him feel scared and confused.
Tilly wants to know what is going on but she has no wish to be the centre of so much attention because, yes, you guessed Agents J and K show up to put a lid on all of this. For those slow of wit, these are the Men in Black.
The plot may sound trite but the telling is superb and even better is the writing particularly when it describes Tilly’s mental, physical, and moral reactions to the Nordics. She styles them ‘Nordics’ for their tall, elongated stature and very pale, all but translucent, blond visages. Frightening as their appearance is to her, somehow it is also magnetic. There follows a double chase as she chases the Nordics and the Men in Black chase her.
I hope there are more where this one came from. The marketing blurb on Amazon does not do the book justice.