John Mulready had just one weakness... women.

Not women en masse or in one-night stands, but one at a time, all-out, for real and forever—except that somehow none of his once-in-a-lifetime romances seemed to last quite that long. Always, sooner or later, a new love arrived to claim John's undying affections and make ashes of the old. And then there was Cissie, incredibly young, incredibly lovely, incredibly erotic... and with Cissie John found himself for the first time in his thirty-nine years cast irrevocably in the loser's role.

Or had he been playing the role of loser all along? This was just one of the things John had to discover, the hard, hard way....