DO WITH ME WHAT YOU WILL brings to life a most transfixing heroine, Elena Howe. A novel with a contemporary setting reflecting today's social upheavals and shifting morality, it is, in the author's words, "a love story that concentrates upon the tension between two American 'pathways': the way of tradition, or Law; and the way of spontaneous emotion--in this case, Love. In the synthesis of these two apparently contradictory forces lies the inevitable transformation of our culture.