When Isis, the ancient Egyptian goddess of healing, has a problem, how can she solve it in the 21st century without the help of a Pharaoh and followers?

Isis wakes Shai, the god of mortality, who decides the lifespan of all, and asks her sister Hathor, the goddess of love, for help.

Kelvin, involved in a motor accident in New York while on his way home to the UK, feels death arrive. Then he wakes up in a hospital. Has Kelvin completely recovered? He will discover he has not.

Kate hasn't had a boyfriend since her disastrous six-week marriage at age twenty. Now twenty-seven, she is advised by Marylyn, her childhood friend, to look for a man in another country.

A Cambridge statistician might say the probability of Kate and Kelvin meeting is zero, but he doesn't know anything about gods ...