<P><B>From the author of <I>Semi-Sweet </I>comes a tale of two women who meet but continue to have a series of chance encounters that follow them through their lives</B></P><P>In 1975, two women—Helen and Sarah—encounter each other in traumatic circumstances. Three years later, their paths cross again when Sarah contacts Helen to complain about a newspaper article that she has written, not realizing that she and Helen have met. Over the following 30 years, their lives continue to intersect, although they never come face to face.