The tranquil fate of Lilia Cantu is torn apart when a drug lord rapes her and shames her into marriage. She later escapes to a small desert town on the Mexican/Texas border where it seems as if the past co-exists with the present, and a fortune-teller predicts she will fall in love three times. She becomes torn between two men---Javier San Andres, a composer, and Miguel Trevino---who have a mysterious connection to Miguel's near death by drowning years before. Part Science fiction, part historical romance, the story examines the relationship between desire, identity, and reality."

Doctor Magdalena Ibarra is a Houston surgeon haunted by the tragic death of her parents in a fire. Burdened by the memory of her father's sins, a doctor who betrayed the poor Mexican immigrants who trusted him, Magdalena desires forgetfulness. While visiting in Mexico City, she gets lost in the gigantic Mercado de la Merced. She discovers a secret passage where miracles are sold: love, sleep, and oblivion. Inflicted by vertigo, she loses consciousness and awakens in a strange place, the home of the La Dona del Olvido or Lady of Forgetfulness. Is her journey real or hallucination? This...

El destino tranquilo de Lilia Cantu es destrozado cuando un nacrotraficante la viola y la averguenza forzandola a casarse con el. Ella luego escapa a un pequeno pueblo del desierto en la frontera entre Mexico y Texas, donde parece como si el pasado coexistiera con el presente, y una adivina le predice que se enamorara tres veces. Ella se debate entre dos hombres -Javier San Andres, compositor, y Miguel Trevino- que tienen una misteriosa conexion con la experiencia de Miguel que casi muere ahogado unos anos antes. En parte ciencia ficcion, en parte romance historico, la historia examina la...