Corinna Chapman dumped accounting and nasty husband for her own bakery "Earthly Delights" in Melbourne Australia. Her new residence has 16 apartments of eccentrics: retired classics professor Dionysius Monk, Dutch gardener Trudi, Mr & Mrs Pemberthy and disgusting doggie Traddles, thin would-be soap stars Goss and Kylie, and jobbing witch Meroe of The Sibyls Cave. Suddenly a junkie collapses on her grate, a gorgeous sabra stalks along her alley complimenting her beauty, and letters threaten her for adultery. Welcome Goths, lost girls, fraud, late nights, nerds, and beautiful slaves. Includes recipes.