The Reuleaux Triangle

When doctoral candidates Matt and Sloane grudgingly agree to an interdisciplinary collaboration, it’s definitely an odd match. He’s a staid, rational historian; she’s a free-spirited anthropologist with a ＂faerie＂ streak. But their working partnership becomes a passionate romance. After a year together in New York Sloane travels to a remote Georgia Sea Island to study firsthand the ancient Yoruba rituals still practiced by the descendants of the same group of black Union Soldiers Matt’s dissertation focuses on. There the impressionable anthropologist succumbs to Bayani Island’s ＂sexy-spooky＂ ambiance, breaks up with Matt, resigns her NEH grant and shortly thereafter is reportedly lost at sea in one of the violent Cape Hatteras storms that have figured so strongly in their joint researches. Launching Matt on a Orphean quest to reunite with his Eurydice in what adherents of Yoruba faith call the ＂Spirit ＂World＂ and cosmologists, a ＂parallel universe.＂