Cousins Eve Kerwin and Ernie Pugliese grew up in Greenwich, CT, in a socially close family circle, but fifteen years of very separate lives had passed when the book opens. Ernie begins Eve’s story, drawing the reader into his reconnection with her, his discovery of her unusual new career and his amazement at her new abilities. Eve had been a Macy’s cosmetics model, married to a state policeman. Ernie had spent 25 successful years in the business world. Each had raised two children and had considered themselves fairly “normal” middle-class citizens. Then Spirit came along to redefine just about everything.