This doublet of stories features voyages. In Across the Gulf, Zoe and Todd go to Guatemala and encounter a shamanistic culture filled with beauty, mystery, and a different way of life. In a deep cave time stops and the challenge becomes how to renew time when ancient forces conspire against you. In the second story, On the Bay, the couple go back in time to the ways of a crabber on the Chesapeake Bay. The couple had hoped their voyage would somehow help them to have a child in their life. They do find a child, although not in the way expected, and the crabber's relationship to a drowned lover quickly complicates things. The journey ends with more than one surprise in the city of Baltimore.