I have to say this book was more exciting than the first, but it was a bit too long and drawn out. This book took place right after the first. Sabrina and Garth were married in England when he went to bring her back home to Evanston. Things are going smoothly, when Sabrina gets a call from a friend saying she saw her in Avignon. Sabrina wasn’t there, and it compels her to make a trip to search for the woman who looked just like her. As it turns out, Sabrina does find out through shop owners that she looks like someone by the name of Sabrina and her companion, Max.
Stephanie and Max did survive the yacht explosion. In the hospital, Stephanie remembers nothing. Max tells her they knew each other for a short time and were married. Max’s friend Robert, a priest, helps Max since Max thinks someone is out to kill him and Stephanie. Stephanie soon gets used to her new life, remembering a name here and there but not much. She’s frustrated not knowing her purpose or identity. But she makes friends in her housekeeper and gets a job working at an antique shop owned by Jacqueline Lapautre. Stephanie doesn’t trust Max. Max actually makes counterfeit money, smuggles it to other countries, and uses the business of importing and exporting farm equipment as not only things where the money can be smuggled, but also young radical activists who want to make a difference in helping poor countries are smuggled in and out of the country. Robert the priest helps these people. Max also helps Robert by giving him money.
Stephanie does not love Max, but she does fall in love with a painter, Leon Dumas.
In Evanston, Garth has to deal with a congressman who wants to investigate money going to universities. Also, a student from China thinks he had a breakthrough in scientific research but the paper turns out to be fraudulent. He actually goes to Garth’s home with a gun but no one is hurt and he is sent back to China.
Word gets out that Max is seen alive. Soon a man is seen and he follows Stephanie on a bike ride up a mountain. Before she gets taken away by this man, Max comes to her rescue but a struggle occurs and both men are killed. Stephanie knows she is in danger. She hides the men and goes to Robert for help. No police are involved. Stephanie and Leon move away.
Part three brings us back to Sabrina looking for her sister in France. Through inquiring at shops, she finds out her sister worked in an antique shop, so she calls all the shops from the phone book, finding the right one. She eventually gets to Robert, and tells him everything. He tells her where Stephanie is living. Sabrina and Stephanie see each other again. Stephanie faints at seeing her sister, and waking up, she miraculously remembers her past.
Things come together for the rest of this long story. It turns out through investigation and talking with men who were involved with Max’s illegal dealings, that Denton, Sabrina’s ex husband, was the one who sent the bad guy to kill Max. We’re left with him calling his lawyer.
As for how these women are going to live now that they’ve really screwed up their lives, they do the logical thing, even though Stephanie is the one who is hurt the most. After explaining everything to Garth, Stephanie realizes even though she wants to be with her children, she can’t hurt her children with the truth. Sabrina and Garth are now their parents. They will continue as they always were. Stephanie, who will be known as Sabrina Longworth, will be Aunt Sabrina, miraculously alive, to the children. She’ll be with Leon, whom she loves, and eventually get a life of her own back.