Emma Farrell has never really erased from her mind the memories of her brief affair with Capt. Ethan Miller. The fantasy that she believed to be so harmless had turned her life into a whirlwind of uncertainty and mistrust. Now the choices she had made three years earlier have returned to haunt her. Why has he come back into her life? Was it to seek revenge for a future he felt was taken away from him? How much anguish is he prepared to inflict? And what would Emma be willing to do to protect her daughter?