Pages toned, dog eared. Wrappers creased, worn, corners bumped. Ex-library, properly de-accessioned with expected stamps, labels, paste downs and protections. Celia, a Midwest graduate student who tutors Spanish, has a new boyfriend, Larry- who came to her for language lessons and has now become her lover. Larry has found the gate to a parallel Earth. On this Earth, however, the Spanish Armada was not defeated by the British Navy, the Protestant Church never gained a foothold, the steam engine (nor any technological advance since then) was never invented, and North America is a Spanish-speaking wilderness. Enslavement of any commoner without a protector abounds in this parallel America.And Celia finds herself trapped there...