title: Recipe for Love
author: Luxenberg, Reva Spiro
description: Emotionally alienated from her parents but living in their home, Sara Solomon is helped in therapy. She gains the strength to move from Tampa, Florida, to Palm Oasis on the east coast where her landlady, Helen, an older woman, both employs and befriends her. The women find dates through an online dating service. Sara meets a policeman with whom she falls deeply in love, but two weeks before their wedding, he is shot and killed. The trauma afflicts Sara with amnesia accompanied by confusion, depression, and fear. Will she recover? This is the gripping story of a courageous young womans fight through psychological tangles to reclaim a normal life and to find love again.