A suburban teenage girl, needy for love, wakes up one morning to find that a secret admirer has left something on her windshield. An adult daughter, trying to cure her father's MS, flies into Florida with a secret stash of bees, hoping to sting her father into remission; A woman, hiking with her husband on an isolated trail in Death Valley, encounters another hiker, a lone man who seems to want more than company. Janet Goldberg's mesmeric stories pit people against their loved ones, their landscapes, the fluid boundaries of safety, and ultimately, the vagaries of love.