Lucille Quince disappears, leaving the town of Eclipse wondering. Did her husband, Ambrose Quince, kill her, or did she run off with another man? When Lucy returns in time to save Ambrose from the hangman three years later, she claims to have no memory of their life together. Stranger to her he might be, but Ambrose is determined he and Lucy will be intimate strangers as he rekindles passion in the only woman who will ever own his heart.