A wealthy summer visitor to the Lovell, Maine area in June 1999, married to a retired physicist, and not at all the sort of person who expects to find a gunslinger from another world standing in her driveway. When Roland and Jake's path brings them through Lovell on a single, extraordinarily compressed day, Irene rises to the occasion with a brisk, intelligent practicality nothing in her summer-resort life has previously had reason to call on - and provides the ka-tet with a piece of help they could not have arranged any other way.