Rhiannon Spencer, the sister of his best friend, has been the object of Max's affections since his childhood. The trouble is, she's nine years older than Max. On Max's eighteenth birthday weekend, he asks Rhiannon for a most extraordinary favor. She helps him, and they go their separate ways. Years later, they meet up while vacationing, and they find that the repercussions of that favor still linger between them. Will they go on as if nothing ever happened, or will their memories get the best of them?

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.