Linda's lovely cheeks were beginning to sag a bit when she hit 65 and she was faced with banishment to the Shady Arms Assisted Living Facility out in the country. It bothered her no end to be forced into secluded retirement just when her naughty urges were running rampant like giggling schoolgirls on a pleasure cruise.
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.