Love, More Acceptable Than Crazy — L.L. Brooks

The first time he saw Kellie, Deputy Joe Pager had a reaction from just looking at a woman he'd never experienced before. As cold and distant as she was, she fascinated him. He hunted her down the next day to discover she'd come to claim a house left to her by her grandmother. Leaving her with no doubt of his intentions to pursue her, she thought to warn him away, telling him bluntly of things she saw or knew with no explanation as to how, that she would shock, frighten, amuse, and confuse him and eventually he would walk away as her mother had her father. To prove how strange she was, she named a killer from a murder weeks before. His response -- he wasn't frightened, he wouldn't walk away, and he believed her. His only concern was how to prove who the murderer was before the man killed Kellie.