When Colleen Belmont explores her past lives under hypnosis, one thing is clear. On her eighteenth birthday-whether as a middle-class English girl swept up in the horrors of WWII or as a southern belle in the midst of civil war-Colleen is faced with a choice between two loves: one false and one true. In her past lives, choosing wrongly or not at all has cost her everything. Now, two weeks before her eighteenth birthday, her choice seems clear: she's been in love with Kevin since they met a year earlier. But what about new-in-town Luke Ransom? Sometimes Colleen feels the heat of his blue, blue eyes-staring at her, through her, seeing everything. Her mind knows what to do, but her heart isn't so sure