When Andy Cole's life falls apart, he doesn't expect things to get worse. Recently dumped by his fianc e and stuck in a dead-end sales job, Andy is barely holding it together. Then he meets an alien. Not a terrifying invader or a government conspiracy kind of alien-just a lost, oddly polite being who has somehow ended up stranded on Earth.
Against his better judgement (and common sense), Andy takes it in. Soon, his small group of equally underachieving mates are roped into helping keep it hidden, fed, and out of the hands of anyone who might want to experiment on it or worse, exploit it. But as word spreads and strange forces close in, Andy discovers that hiding an alien is the easy part. Surviving what it brings into his life might be something else entirely. Because sometimes the thing that saves you... is the thing that ruins everything.