Dr Ralph Penner became an expert locksmith, a pilot and a professor after his wife and he separated. These pursuits were activities that he used to fill the voids in his life, but they became extremely useful as he was faced with a summer of adventure. After years of being single Ralph is faced with a summer of falling in love with one lady after another and none seem to fit his dream girl status. He does get involved with a human trafficking organization which consumes his entire summer as he tries to protect many young lives caught up in the illegal business of crimes against unwitting young people from other lands. The ladies that he meets along this summer experience don't seem to fit his requirements of mate selection. Before the end of the book, two of the ladies become very important to him, one very young and one somewhere around his age. Ralph goes back to his teaching job with full intentions of keeping in touch with two of his new friends. He finds out that making a tough decision at his age isn't always that easy.