Six years have passed since Jake Sanders watched Natalie, the love of his life, marry another man. Six years of hiding a broken heart by throwing himself into his career as a college professor. Six years of keeping his promise to leave Natalie alone, and six years of tortured dreams of her life with her new husband, Todd. But six years haven't come close to extinguishing his feelings, and when Jake comes across Todd's obituary, he can't keep himself...

John Waters is a happy husband and father. But before he was married, he escaped an obsessive love affair which he feared would consume him. When he married, his former lover disappeared and he heard that she had been murdered in New Orleans. Now, a woman he meets stuns him with a secret only his former lover would have known. When the woman is murdered, Water's quiet life becomes a whirlwind of guilt and suspicion, and the terror that can result...