Regent's Academy in Parsons Spring, New York, trains the pre-school children of well-healed professionals and business people. It's founder, Dr. Leslie Regent, touts it as a school of Marvels, Wonders and Knowledge, and in many ways it is both for the children and the faculty. As their stories unfold, the strange and wonderful loves and lives of children, their parents and the teachers of the school intertwine in unexpected, romantic and sometimes tragic ways. A childhood friendship evolves into an adult obsession that ends in bitter disappointment. One character remakes her life in classic American style, creating herself in a new persona, an identity that obscures her origins. Another flees from halfway across the world the lies and treachery of a family that has deceived and used her. Yet another finds the love of her life and loses him in a sad reversal of fate. All of them have one thing in common, the school of wonders, the place of marvels and knowledge, Regent's Academy.