"Janet Rossi is very smart and unusually attractive, an aide to the governor of Massachusetts, but she suffers from an illness that makes her, as she puts it, "not exactly a good long-term investment." Jake Entwhistle is a few years older, a carpenter and portrait painter, smart and good-looking too, but with a shadow over his romantic history.

After meeting by accident - literally - when Janet backs into Jake's antique truck, they begin a love affair marked by courage, humor, a deep and erotic intimacy... and modern complications."--BOOK JACKET.