James O'Neill, a former war correspondent, is now a highly successful novelist living in Paris after a failed marriage. He has recurring dreams of Lynnie Slattery, his first love whom he left in Chicago twenty years before, and he has been unable to resolve the cultural and family conflicts of his childhood. On a stop over in Chicago while returning to Paris from a movie conference in Los Angeles, O'Neill is irresistably drawn to the lake resort where...

"There's evil people around, Dermot love...I knew about them even before me dream. Really evil people. Won't we have to fight them!" This latest tale of Nuala Anne McGrail, the engagingly fey heroine of such irresistible books as Irish Cream and Irish Lace, begins with a foreboding dream of some terrible impending evil. Dermot Michael Coyne, Nuala's adoring husband and spear-carrier, knows better than to ignore his wife's second sight, but from whence...