Everything changes on Gardner Island when Lioness Lazos appears. Ostensibly a waitress, the young looking woman is so much more. A long-time couple bring her into their lives. Abe is a retired history professor with a love of the harmonica. Joanna is a middle-aged stewardess counting the days until she can stop working. Her daughter, Lily, is an angry, confused lesbian. Lioness touches and impacts these three in life-altering ways. During an abnormally long spring and summer, relationships are challenged as the mortals brush shoulders with gods. Peter S. Beagle brings the reader to a mysterious place that I will remember long after closing the book.