Shirine McVey had everything to live for. She was young and in love and engaged to Jeff Fordham, a kind, gentle man who stirred her blood as no man ever had. The young couple planned to build the house of their dreams and raise thoroughbread horses in the mountains of New Mexico. That was twenty years ago. Now, Shirine is in a strange house in a strange town -- and married to a man she doesn"t know. How could it be? How could the past twenty years have just ceased to exist? Where was Jeff? Where was her former life? Why couldn"t she remember! The reason stemmed from years of drug and alcohol abuse, according to her wealthy doctor husband. Jeff was just a figment of her imagination; a fantasy conjured up by a lonely, distraught woman. Could it be true? Could her vivid memories of him be only a dream? No. It was not possible to fabricate that "once in a lifetime" love -- a love that, even after twenty years, would not die.