Driving through her hometown, Dixie Hemingway witnesses a head-on collision and pulls one of the drivers from his car just before it explodes in flames. A bit shaken, Dixie proceeds to her local bookstore where she meets Cosmo, a fluffy, orange tomcat, and Mr. Hoskins, the store?s kind but befuddled owner. The next day, the driver whose life she saved claims that he is Dixie?s husband ? and both Cosmo and Mr. Hoskins have disappeared.