Amazon.com description: Product Description: The second novel in THE PERFORMERS family saga. For eighteen years Abel and Lilith had deliberately led separate lives: Abel as a surgeon, Lilith as an actress. During these yearsof isolation Abel becomes a tyrannical father and husband, the situation finally exploding when his eldest son defies him, determined to make his way in the world as a poet, not a doctor. When Jonah meets Lilith at the theatre, he is bewitched by her beauty and is caught in her spell - the same spell that his fatherhas been desperately trying to break for years.