The Dating Fantasy by Frank Shapiro

This is a tale of the interchange between the old and the young,
between the past and its enveloping tentacles into the now.

Constantly haunted by past dating experiences, Mark Zuskind, a retired historian, meets up with the beautiful Helena, a professor from Russia, after being manipulated by an invitation to attend an international conference in Budapest. Targeted by the Vatican for his alleged blasphemous writings and lectures, Mark now finds himself at the center of a complex plot. An organization for women's empowerment takes up Mark's predicament to fight for academic freedom and equality for women in the Church. Within an inner web of convoluted intrigue and personal conflicts, the present clashes with the past evoking Mark's denouement of dating trysts.