Fresh from her shocking encounter with Christopher in the country club cloakroom, Julia successfully resumes her lawyer's demeanor long enough to find her husband and get home, following the instructions of her unexpected lover to the tee. But sleep does not come easily, not at night, and certainly not the next morning when, with a sleeping Ray beside her, Julia deals with an arousal she never expected to feel in the most elemental way possible. Her next encounters with her secret lover take her further into the untried and unknown, and further from the staid self she knew she didn't want to remain. The story of a beautiful, professional, early-middle-aged woman continues as Julia wrestles with the implications of what she is doing, as unable to reconcile it as she is to resist him.