A novel for all who are aging and long for love in their lives. Carol, still grieving Mario's death, finds it hard to wrap her mind around the reality: she is in love again, fiercely in love, this time with a man never seen, a man with a voice never heard, a man living 1600 miles away. Eighty-year-old Ellis, equally incredulous, knows he loves Carol for he falls under her spell when he reads the seventy-eight-year-old author's book on her own aging. Complete strangers when they meet playing bridge in a virtual Internet game room, they begin an email courtship fraught with doubt and uncertainty, but despite reservations, they resolutely move through imagined and actual problems into a deep longing for one another.