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 and the wrong decision might cost Colleen her life and her true love.