When Arabel wakes up in a hospital in Spain, her memory is gone. Even when a handsome one-eyed man named Cortez tells her that he's her husband, nothing stirs. He explains to her that they met in Madrid two months earlier, fell in love and then married almost immediately. Cortez treats her gently and lovingly, and Arabel feels as though both her body and her heart might melt at his touch. But then she learns the terrifying truth―she was the one who abandoned him and had been found with another lover! Did Arabel really betray him?