Dorian Wild has a car, a good apartment, a junior partnership in a lawfirm, and a solid relationship. Then a seeming ghost walks out of an elevator floor and rebalances a miner's panning dish on top of her head. Suddenly Dorian Wild also has danger, tragedy, mystery, break-ins, mayhem, an unscrupulous megacorp on her trail, and a whole new concept of reality. Especially when it involves a nineteenth-century Irish activist called Jimmy Keenighan, who has ended up in her time and place for reasons neither of them understand.