Some love stories begin with a spark. This one begins with a memory. Samaria begins dreaming of a life that isn’t hers—silk gowns, whispered promises, a man she has never met but somehow mourns. She tells herself it’s stress. Until the dreams start following her into daylight. In 1881, Solange Brown is seventeen and bound to a marriage chosen for her. One forbidden night with a man who expects nothing from her changes the course of her life. Now, in the present, Samaria feels the pull of that unfinished story tightening around her. The memories grow sharper. The emotions more urgent. But memory is unreliable—and not everything that returns is meant to be reclaimed. As past and present begin to fracture, Samaria must decide: Is this destiny… or obsession? Because if love survives more than one lifetime, so might the consequences. A psychological suspense novel about identity, moral ambiguity, and the cost of unfinished choices.