A reluctant work colleague who disbelieves in hypnotism goes on a team building evening to see a stage show and gets involved in the act and later feels he urge to meet up with the female hypnotist except not everything is as first appears.
A large, well-dressed group around the dinner table, boss smugly expects to make wives put out so husbands will keep jobs. Food play and shaving finale.
Building collapses are usually a tragedy for everyone, but when the Miami condo of a man, Peter Stroud, going from one new identify, Matthew Finney, to yet another one, Terrence Sinclair, while on the escape from being caught indulging in his fetish for fourteen-year-old boys, comes down in a deep pile of rubble, he, presumed to be under the pile, is given an opportunity to escape to Italy and to try again, with his fetish having been extended.
We follow in this first book the adventures of Ben, architect. He is seriously searching a new spiritual balance after the loss of his partner. The Circle adopting him, has a rather physical interpretation of mental healing.