When Melissa Nyquist answers a mysteriously poetic want ad to help out in a botanist's greenhouse, she is pleasantly surprised to find that her new boss is distinguished, handsome, intelligent, and sexy as all hell. She soon finds herself drawn to her employer and into the lascivious and sultry world of rare fruits and flowers. Meanwhile, she becomes unwittingly pulled into a web of international intrigue, global domination, and weather modification.

Malcolm Brautigan's prose is rousing, and arousing, as he takes readers on a sex-saturated romp, peopled by powerful, libidinous women, from Santa Fe to Sofia, and from Athens to Silverton, Colorado, to a sudsy orgasm-fest in a Tucson car wash. He explores art, relationships, lust, albedo, and libido, with humor and insight.