Nightingale is human - or would be, had it not been for the manner of her creation. Genetically engineered and grown to adulthood in a lab, she was created, not born. Why? For the sole purpose of the entertainment of rich men as one of the many Inamoratas in the bordello business . Beautiful, elegant, a superb dancer and an even better singer, she is the perfect lover for any man. Perfect, that is, except for her personality - the one thing you can't engineer.

Anne seems to have it all - at only twenty-five, she's a freelance theatre critic and married to Aaron Harrington, a wealthy businessman one year her junior. But after two years of marriage, the couple realizes something - they can't have children. What ensues is a visit to Dr. Graeme, the doctor at the country's most highly-acclaimed fertility clinic. But what happens when Anne starts to develop feelings for Dr. Graeme that might put her marriage - and her chances of having a baby - on the line?