The passionate and erotic interplay of unexpected love plays out on very different stages in this three novella collection by the author of the time twisting romantic thriller Ghosts in the Heart. Jacob and Elise,Caleb and Hellene,Eric and Karen must all confront the barriers to happiness erected against them by a cruelly indifferent world. Whether their efforts to cling to each other succeed or fail they will all discover that love does not have a single theme. There are variations.