Celebrated New York-based novelist Kenneth Bixby is on a whirlwind speaking tour to promote his latest book, Miriam, his next 24- hour stop being Cleveland. Accompanying him is his faithful and efficient secretary Anne Rogers, who also happens to be his girlfriend. While he isn't ready and may never be, she has let him know that she is ready to be Mrs. Bixby. She understands that the plethora of largely female fans that fawn over him mean nothing substantive. While there are the fair share of such fans in Cleveland, it is one that may cause a problem for them both: the former Julie Peterson, now known as Mrs. Harvey Wilson. Although Ken doesn't recognize her at first, she is a former college flame. Overly emotional Julie believes that Ken's novels speak to her, especially that he wrote Miriam as an ode about and to her. While Ken has seemingly no choice but to humor her infatuation while not telling Anne, the matter is complicated by others looking out for Julie, including her overly concerned cousin Elizabeth Clochessy, Elizabeth's overly litigious fiancé Arthur Westlake and his equally litigious associates, and penny-pinching Harvey who has his own motives in the situation beyond being a jealous husband.
—Huggo