Doris Ross, an insurance claims adjuster, lives with her husband, Ron, in Los Angeles. Both are amateur musicians. Ron, an avid record collector and musicologist, reads of Fritz's death and mentions it to Doris. She, being unfamiliar with the name, places little importance on the information, but for some reason the name sticks in her mind. Shortly after hearing of his death she sees one of his recordings and impulsively buys it, even though she doesn't particularly like tenors--especially ones unknown to her.

Upon playing the record and hearing this man's glorious voice she begins to feel depression, which is quite foreign to her practical, positive nature. She is in love, really in love--with a man she has never, and now will never meet.

By use of a Ouija board, first with a friend, then alone, she makes contact with an entity who claims to be Fritz's spirit. He is a friendly, riotously funny ghost, joking around in both English and German. Doris doesn't know German and has to buy a German dictionary to translate.

When Doris can't find a partner for the Ouija board she attempts it alone. Soon her hands are being pulled from letter to letter, and she and Fritz are having a lively conversation. He admits he needs help, which she agrees to give him whatever it takes. During her next solo sitting she learns it could take her life.

Now convinced that the entity she has been communicating with is not Fritz--instead, something grossly evil which is bent on destroying her, she begins to feel chills , a burning sensation throughout her body, and a "fuzziness" in the back of her head. A male voice shouts inside her mind. She is terrified and hopeless. Ron can't help her. Psychiatrists who "don't believe in that stuff" can't help her either.

Finally with the help of a friend, a medical doctor who plays chamber music with the Rosses, Doris regains her ability to function--and along with it, her desire to resume communication with Fritz.

Always a hard-core skeptic, Doris wavers between doubt and belief. If Fritz's personality has survived the death of his body, she wants to help him by releasing him from his earthbound condition. But, she also wants to hold onto him, as her love for him has now become the most solid thing in her life.

Through subsequent communications with Doris and others by Ouija board, automatic writing, and later, direct thought transference, Fritz makes his "confession". He describes his life on Earth as it really was--shabby and sordid beneath the glitter of international fame; and presents a true picture of himself--of the loneliness, frustration and guilt lurking behind his protective facade--that of the typical "vain tenor".

This extraordinary love affair between the living and the so-called dead continues for nearly ten years, and Doris still cannot verify all that Fritz has told her about himself. She has a husband, a career, and a life to attend to. She can't continue living in two worlds, and Fritz must advance to a higher spiritual plane. Sorrowful but determined, she breaks off communication with the only man she has ever truly loved.

The story could end here. There has been conflict and resolution. Lives have been changed, for the better, we presume. But Fritz will not stay buried.

Early in 1977, eleven years after his death, Fritz makes a comeback--he's bigger, better and stronger than ever! He speaks directly into Doris's mind, promising to make her life so exciting that she will never think of leaving him again.

As predicted, 1977 becomes a year of accelerated psychic activity. Fritzy's newly-acquired power enables him to channel through many people associated with Doris to convince her of his continued existence. He even attempts to take over the body of a long-time friend of the Rosses in order to make love to Doris "in the flesh".

Toward the end of the year Fritz furnishes fresh material concerning his death, implying it may not have been accidental after all.

By "coincidence" an old acquaintance of the Rosses is brought back into their lives, just long enough to allow Fritz to speak though him while in a hypnotically-induced trance--and to introduce Doris to the hypnotist. As a result, Doris begins working with the hypnotist who, by raising her vibratory rate, puts her into contact with an alchemist from the 18th Century--the enigmatic Count St. Germain. The Count welcomes Doris as a disciple of his New Age teachings. Fritz also becomes a disciple of St. Germain--the only teacher he has ever accepted.

Although Fritz has been reborn on a higher spiritual plane, Doris, through St. Germain, is now given the opportunity to verify Fritz's story. She is led to people who knew about Fritz, and they confirm all he has told her. Her remaining task is that of assisting Fritz in making his final confession by telling his story to the world. She will them be free to follow St. Germain in his all-out campaign for the enlightenment of mankind.