What happens when soulmates find each other but can't find a way to be together? Librettist/lyricist Beau Kellogg, 60, is aching for one last hit on Broadway, now dominated by glitzy high-tech productions, which are so different from his own previous shows. Amanda Harary, 25, dreams of becoming a Broadway singer, while working at a New York hotel. When older man and younger woman meet in a late-night phone conversation over the hotel's switchboard, it is the beginning of something each has dreamed of but never found -- miraculous joy, unbearable pain and the knowledge that they belong together forever.

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Tags: Stealing Fire, ABNA Semifinalist 2008, Susan Sloate