Librarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ISBN 0-373-10539-8.

Her body had felt his caress before...

Velvet balked at the thought; it frightened her. Jerard Daniels frightened her! He claimed to have known her--intimately--two years earlier, but her mind was a blank.

Her husband's tragic death the day their son was born had triggered Velvet's amnesia; she remembered nothing. Yet why would this man lie?

Velvet just couldn't believe she'd had an affair with a married man while engaged to Anthony. On the other hand, if she had loved Jerard as much then as she did now ....