When the heart wants what it should not have...

Settling into a new job at a hospital on the wild northern coast of Washington, Sara Patterson has carefully realized her cautious hopes for steady, practical life. Education, check. Secure employment, check. Tumultuous attraction to an attractive drifter? Not on the list.

Jessie Singer loves the way billiard balls roll over the green baize of a pool table and her dream of playing pool professionally keeps her wandering from job to job, and from woman to woman. But she keeps coming back to remote cliffs and redwoods of the Pacific Northwest, even if she's not willing to admit why.