Mira Hutton, a young professor at the University of Washington, is at an academic conference in Portland, Oregon. She has an unexpected sexual encounter with a science fiction writer, Daniel Martin, and the affair continues as they both return to their homes in Seattle. Mira is filled with guilt, because she feels that she is happily married to an older man, Alan Hutton, a physician in Seattle, whom she genuinely loves. What will she do if Alan finds out about the affair? And what role does Eileen Sherman, Mira's close friend, play in this tangled situation? This novel vividly portrays the lives and loves of two men and two women in a series of scenes that are both steamy and tender, explicit and delicate. You will never forget how Mira reconciles herself to the two men she loves.