Life is good for Pierce and Bree Neilson. They have two beautiful children and, even after eight years of marriage, are as in love with each other as ever. And, according to the polls, Pierce is going to be the next Texas senator taking a seat in Congress. As the elections approach, Pierce asks Bree to take a more active role in his campaign. Previously supporting Pierce discreetly from the background, which he's chalked up to her lovable modesty, Bree cautiously agrees to step into the public eye. But Bree is aware that what her husband doesn't know can hurt him, so when she interviews with a reporter from the Houston Star, Bree carefully focuses on her current life and only vaguely answers questions about her past. Facing the photographers at a fundraising ball later that evening, she tries to swallow her fears that someone might recognize her-not as the Bree she is now, but as the Gabrielle she was fifteen years ago. And then, moments after the photos are taken and a day before they even go into print, she runs smack into her past when her husband introduces her to his college buddy Eric Bentley. To Bree, Eric should be a complete stranger...but to Gabrielle he was once a boy from the neighborhood. Suddenly, the terror of her past becomes a present reality. If anyone discovers who she is, then he can find her, too, and the life she's built from the ashes of her old one will meet a similarly terrible end. Can Bree survive the vengeance of her old enemies? And, if she does, can Pierce forgive her for keeping so much hidden from him? Or will her past steal her future, too?