A Tarot reading suggests that Alan Horne's soul has walked out on him. Oddly logical. Alan Horne--Pagan priest and polyamorist--has wife problems and job problems.Can Alan persuade his wandering soul to return? Is retrieving a runaway soul the same as tracking down a lost pet?Maybe.In this quest-story set in the days before 9/11, a middle-aged man returns to his younger haunts to try to recover the integrity he feels he has lost.