Her awful secret is safe with her devoted brother, although her best friend suspects all is not as it seems. Each tries to protect her from the consequences of her own impulses, but in the final crush they both fail. Delsey Roberts, beautiful and headstrong but haunted and capricious, resists romantic entanglement until she falls for the brilliant but clueless computer programmer and music lover Harvey Jackman. This tangled tale roams from the streets of Hell's Kitchen to the sands of the Big Sur, exploring the emotional peaks and valleys of what seems to be the perfect couple's intimate relationship, and the relentless forces that drive it to calamity.