In her midlife, Marsha finds herself once again sitting with her father in a hospital. This time will be the last.

In the quiet of the evening, she gets to know one of the nurses. The open lesbian leads Marsha to examine her own life as the good daughter, dutiful wife, and attentive mother--and what might have been.

Their lives are worlds apart, but those worlds collide as Marsha stands nightly vigil of her father's last days. As his lucidity ebbs and flows, stories of Marsha's growing up come to light and Kit has questions as she tends to her patient, and learns about the...

Set in current time, about one thousand immortals known as Ever Kind live among us mortals.

They identify and locate the others through senses, except for a singular anomaly, whom they call the Black Hole or the Black Sheep. Their immortality derives from their ability to flow into another living host when the original host dies. This ability allows them to have a renewed body or escape detection as they take over a host of a different species.

Over the millennia, they have lived out lives of both sexes and animals as varied as cockroaches, whales, three-legged blind goats,...