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First there was a phone call, then a chance encounter. He tells Ariel his name is Jack Spurling and he seems astounded she has forgotten him. But Ariel is a 33-year-old woman with only one year of memory, the rest erased by amnesia. She learns however that he was at the centre of one of the most notorious stories she ever covered as a TV news magazine producer - the story of a man who many believe got away with the murder of his wife.

Ariel feels compelled to reconstruct the events leading up to the trial, which ended in a hung jury. The closer she gets to Spurling, the more she wants to believe his innocence for he is a man of confident, intimate charm who stirs long-dormant feelings in Ariel. But when Ariel digs into Spurling's past, she uncovers a sordid tale of a party years ago that degenerated into a whirlpool of adultery, jealousy and violence. And the events set in motion that evening on a yacht far out at sea are only now reaching a climax...giving Ariel just one chance to decide between what she feels in her heart and what she knows in her gut.