Pat and Starla Mayhew, successful young professionals, find that love is not enough to heal the stresses in their marriage. After Starla leaves him, Pat seeks counseling and is introduced to the idea of using past-life regression to uncover the roots of the problems between him and his wife. The psychiatrist hypnotically regresses him to five previous lifetimes. Through Pat's eyes we see the lives in which he and Starla and another soul have been closely associated. Their relationships change as they are sometimes married, sometimes parent and child, sometimes enemies, with many permutations in their roles. An exciting and satisfying read as the three souls adventure across many millennia and four continents, changing sex and race to meet their karmic needs.