Kyle Maki was a man of contradictions. An ex-university professor turned
bus driver, he had little time for the youthful inexperience  of Amber
Jones, his parents' summer employee at their amethyst mine.  For her part,
Amber was determined to make Kyle see her as a woman--until she learned the true reason for his sudden change of occupation, and realized there was
more than a difference of age and opinion between them.