Freshly recovered from her adventures in Oregon wine country, Emma Golden is contacted by her old friend Melody Wyatt to help Melody find her missing sister Aurora. known as "the Bolter", 50-year-old Aurora has burned her way through plethora of husbands and lovers. newly reinvented by modern science, Aurora goes on the internet and ends up with Cliff Baker. She can't wait to sell her condo, quit her job, and move with him to the southern Oregon coast where -- to Melody's alarm -- she drops out of sight