Despite a deep and enduring love, paradise is not without its problems. Lesa’s domestication, in a home like none she had ever had, consumed all her energies as a mother and a supporter of liberal causes. The science that had forged their relationship was supplanted by the pleasures of family and raising an extraordinary son. Roger was very like his father. But in the layers beneath all the happiness Ray had become frustrated by not having been included in family secrets and Lesa’s lack of the scientific enthusiasm that Ray had loved so much about Lesa.