When Diana Thatcher, widowed mother of two, advertised for a live-in handyman, she expected a history scholar in tweeds and horn-rims. Not this suntanned fraud in cutoffs, who grinned easily and complained of the heat....

Well, it was hot in Springfield in July--and never hotter than that July. Though Zach Wainwright occupied the bedroom above Diana's, he was eager to move downstairs ... permanently. The man didn't know a nut from a bolt, but when it came to loving, he had talent to his very fingertips.. .