They say that cats have nine lives! It was Familiar's most recent life that would worry her. Since she'd found the cat in the university parking lot, Professor Eleanor Duncan had been assaulted, interrogated by the CIA, her apartment invaded by a crazy little dog and its animal owner, and her husband seemed to have returned from the dead... When veterinarian Peter Curry identified Eleanor's furry friend as an escaped research animal, he couldn't know where that clue would lead. To Adventure, romance, counterplot and conspiracy, and to the explosive enigma that was Familiar's past life.