Charlene Tess
Shirine McVey goes to sleep in a hotel in El Paso, Texas, the night before her wedding and awakens in a luxurious bedroom in Oceanside, California. To her horror, she learns she is married to a man she doesn't know.
She remembers her fiancé, Jeff Fordham, a kind, gentle man who stirred her blood as no man ever had. But that was twenty years ago. Who is this stranger who says he is her husband? Where is Jeff? Why can’t she remember the last twenty years of her life?
According to her husband, a respected physician, her confusion stems from years of drug and alcohol abuse. Jeff is just a figment of her imagination—a fantasy conjured up by a lonely, distraught woman.
Could it be true? Could her vivid memories of Jeff be only a dream?
No, she knew it was not possible to fabricate that once-in-a-lifetime love—a love that, even after twenty years, would not die.