This weekend I ran out of stuff to read, so I re-read Helen On the Run, and I concluded that it must be awfully confusing, because there were so many plot lines being interwoven!
Firstly, Helen is trying to avoid being caught by the FBI, because she had picked up her two adopted daughters, and made a run for it.
Secondly, she met up with a mother and daughter couple, soon after she had left home to go into hiding, and they wanted to come along with Helen and the little girls! The daughter is Erin, who figures in all future stories.
Thirdly, Helen is pregnant with a baby. The baby's father is Geoffrey Gibson, a musician, and a recurring character. Geoffrey keeps pestering Helen to marry him, but of course she, being a lesbian, isn't going to.
Fourthly, while in hiding, Helen disguises herself as a man, and takes up a job as a construction worker. One of her co-workers—a woman—has a daughter in high school. Helen is invited to their home, and the daughter falls in love with Helen.
Fifthly, Helen and company have to go underground again, because one of their party, Michelle, is caught by the FBI. They wind up in the vicinity of St. Paul, and Helen and Erin's mother get jobs at a private boarding school.
Finally, Helen begins to show, and she's taken to an obstetrician, where Helen is declared to be high-risk.
There are at least four more threads, having to do with Helen's work at the school, and the teachers, and the principal, and the music in the school chapel on the weekends. I must have been mad when I wrote the story, but it seemed very plausible to me at the time!
Well. I had to get that off my chest.
Kay.
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