Set in contemporary St. Louis, this romance reworks the theme of reason versus passion against the backdrop of a May-December marriage with the help of a disincarnate woman, Aspasia – once a courtesan and Pericles’s wife in ancient Greece. Felicia Mendive, an upwardly mobile woman in the banking world, wills to control the course of life through her rational powers. On a lark, Felicia and her two friends, visit a channeler who receives cryptic messages in verse from Aspasia.

On repeated visits to the medium, the messages seem pointed at Felicia and at her single-minded pursuit of money and power. When Felicia marries Gus Walsingham, the sixty-five-year-old wealthy owner of a bathroom-fixture and hot-tub business, she discovers a crack in her cool rationality. The marriage is a sound business contract, ensuring that Walsingham Waterworks is managed capably after Gus’s retirement and accomplishing Felicia’s proclaimed goal in the opening line of the book: “I want all the good things of this life.” She gets more than she bargains for and learns the limitations of her cold approach when she experiences a passionate love.

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