it's a lesbian fiction mystery Dr Dory Winslow returns to her aunt's home in a posh Resort Town La Jolla shores to attend a conference of international Marine scientists into lecture at Scripps institute or oceanographic she is surprised if I the artist Alice keeks and I'm assuming woman house sitting for her aunt. dorian's life is for the complicated by the arrival of her demanding lover actress Jane neville. and Amelia's house also becomes host of admiral weatherly who is bored with retirement and looking for action wealthy Philip Fairchild doctor and Dean Parma a distinguished visiting professor and feminate fatale and a brass neighbor Moreland stevens. the oceanographer the artist and the actors are soon caught and an emotional charge triangle which is for the complicated by international intrigue involving a European consortium anxious to steal top secret charts of potentially valuable Marine mineral deposit.