While walking the beachfront in her small but charming little town on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, Abby Henderson comes face to face with someone from her past, a rich and famous musician. At age 19 she spends one reckless and romantic evening in the French Quarter of New Orleans with the British celebrity.

Abby tries for over thirty years to bury the secret of that unfortunate but thrilling encounter. You see...Abby was also in love with her college sweetheart, Anselm Henderson when she spent that magical night so long ago with the handsome young rock star. She and Anselm were married...

Anakarin Marshall, a Southern middle-aged woman, has been a dutiful wife and mother for the past thirty years. Now that her two sons are grown, successful and on their own, she makes great strides to devote more time to herself, her husband and to their relationship. She is enjoying her new-look and style and so is her husband, Michael Marshall.

While on a business trip with him to an exclusive hotel in California, Anakarin is kidnapped by Justin McKinney, an eccentric and wealthy man who is also Michael's employer. McKinney becomes obsessed with making her into the woman he loved and lost...

Living in seclusion near the bay shores of a small Mississippi Gulf Coast town, famous musician, Rick Clayton begins to have nightmares about an enchanting woman from his past, and shares his anxieties with his new wife, Abby. Although puzzled by her husband's memories of the mysterious woman, Abby is more intrigued than threatened. As time passes, she believes this woman from Rick's past and her illusive aunt are one and the same. But she knows this could not be because the woman would have to be over a hundred years old.

In 1898 New Orleans a nineteen-year-old Creole socialite,...