When single mother and freelance science writer Sarah Bennett interviews Dr. Ronald Keating on the Chernobyl disaster for its 30th anniversary, she unwittingly gets entangled in the retired pharmaceutical researcher's strange plot to combat global warming with an experimental medication. In a wry voice both funny and provocative, she grapples with Keating's true motivations as well as profound questions about the value of an individual human life versus a society of billions in a climate-changing world.

Six character-driven LGBT-related novellas and stories by an author whose work has been described as "accomplished, well-observed, off plumb, gripping, provocative, unsettling, memorable, quirky, strange, and hilarious."