Professor Fiona Reid feels it is now too late for the life she would have 

wished.  "I want so much more than this dusty book jacket I've allowed

myself to become."  She accepts the offer to take a group to Italy as their

courier.

Kale McBride a successful outgoing writer of lesbian fiction is a member

of the group.  "I do miss being part of a couple...the relationship, but

it is hard as you get older to medetg women who interest you intellectually

and sexually.  Or find women interested in you!"