Alongside her other novels, Ladders to Fire, Children of the Albatross, The Four-Chambered Heart and Seduction of the Minotaur, it was gathered into a collection known as Cities of the Interior.

The novel follows the character of Sabina, a woman who enjoys the sexual licence typically associated with men.

She calls a random number from a bar in the middle of the night, seeking to confess or find solace in the voice of a stranger.

Her various love interests and her relationship with her husband, Alan, without whom she feels she cannot live, make her life more and more complex.

The level of deceit her hedonistic lifestyle forces her to maintain leads her to regard herself as "an international spy in the house of love".