Ellie Nightingale was a struggling unwed teenager when her baby daughter was kidnapped. Nearly twenty-five years later, Ellie, now married and a respected psychologist, remains haunted by her loss. Kate Sutton, left crippled by the riding accident that cost her the baby she was carrying, knows the truth about Ellie's child -- a dark secret she guards jealously, because to reveal it not only would risk her husband's devotion, but tear from her arms the adopted daughter she loves as her own.