Maggie O"Malley is a flamboyant, warm-hearted professional escort with a large clientele of male admirers, but she has never had success in friendships with women. Barbara Collins is a sexually repressed thirty-something just released into the world after the death of her invalid mother. Barbara has never had a love affair with a man. The novel begins when Maggie goes to bed with chest pains. She awakens in the "Decision Room" where she meets Angela and Lucy, representatives of heaven and hell. Because these arbitrators cannot agree on the eternal future of the good-hearted call girl, they send Maggie back to Earth with an unusual assignment: to introduce Barbara to the joys of loving. Maggie"s fate will hinge on the success of her mission. The story revolves around the relationship that develops between the two women and what they teach each other about love, friendship and sex. Through a series of lascivious lessons and misadventures, Barbara masters the pleasures of the erotic and eventually becomes romantically involved with a wonderful man with whom she shares deliciously sinful, yet wonderful sex. Since Maggie"s mission didn"t turn exactly the way either Angela or Lucy had anticipated, the two supernatural agents agree that Maggie will be sent out on more assignments...Slow Dancing will delight both the readers of Joan Elizabeth Lloyd"s previous books and lovers of light erotic reading.