Love in the eighties -- was it possible? Larkin Walker had always thought that the challenge lay in finding it. Her many tasks as director of The Learning Center on Long Island had always given her little time to eat, let alone socialize. Then Dr. Alex Jakobs, successful psychologist and cable rv host, managed to mesh their schedules, and Larkin was faced with the real challenge of love: holding on to it. For Larkin's past had resurfaced in the form of a devastatingly handsome, foreign superstar, and though she believed in Alex's love, the glittering facsimile her old boyfriend offered was so seductive.