The story is set in 1978, in the sleepy West Coast college town of Tillicum. Lorelei McMillan, a young Australian emigre, is trying to make sense of her life just after her marriage has collapsed. She feels less like an outsider now that she is attending university; in her fellow visual art students she finds open and accepting friendship. Lorelei's view that men are simply prey, and her penchant to rush headlong into liaisons, often lead to disaster. Still, she seeks the emotional experience as inspiration for her art. In her good friends, particularly Paula, a social work student, she has support and advice when she wants it, which is seldom. Through Paula, she meets a practitioner of Eastern medicine who rattles her with his perceptions. Kwok Lee Morgan seems to be everything she finds exciting in a man, but she wants to be dubious about his talents, as she has met many men who have "lines" designed to ensnare women. Though he warns her of an impending health issue, she plunges...

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