Julia recovered consciousness after a car accident to discover that she had lost her memory. Not completely— but three months had vanished out of her life, and they happened to be the three months she had been married to Ross Mannering. There was no doubt about it, she was indeed Ross's wife; but all memory of her marriage was obliterated. Amnesia, she knew, can sometimes be a defence mechanism, cutting off its victim from something they would rather forget. What was it that Julia subconsciously wanted to forget ? Ross was an attractive man, and it was easy to believe that she had loved him deeply. Had something happened to damage that love? Something, for instance, that had involved the glamorous Lou?