Second in the Trilogy, Dagney, now a divorced woman on her mission of self-discovery, -discovers- a young man, a very young man, on her circumnavigation sailing adventure in Baja Mexico. Learning about life by escaping from it she finds herself teaching an overtly-healthy stud from the Sea of Cortez town of Topolobompo, who becomes her first-mate on The Adventuress, a 54 foot yawl, the intricacies of the female mystique and his role in it.