Two people met on a Galveston beach and followed their passion into love. But the real world intruded, and that love was left only in memory. Two years later, Meryl Stevens and Reese Corbett met again, and this meeting was a disaster: Reese was expected to marry Meryl's sister. But memories linger, and all the passion of the past draw them into each other's arms. Like the phoenix from the ashes, their love was reborn, golden, new and magical.