title: Intimate Strangers
author: Sivad, Gem
description: Ambrose and Lucy Quince struggle through eight years of marriageendlessly mired in discord. After they've shared too many of theirdisagreements publicly, in 1874, Lucy mysteriously disappears. Folks in Eclipse assume she's either run off with another man, or her husband's finally killed her.
  Three years later, scarred in mind and body, Lucy returns to Eclipse in timeto save Ambrose from hanging for her murder. She can't remember him, the life they once had, or the terrible event that tore her from herfamily. But she plans to find out what happened to her, with or withoutthe help of the snarling,lustful man she apparently once wed.
  Although Lucy's lost her memories, Ambrose hasn't forgotten a damned thing. The woman who once promised to love, honor, and obey, left him instead. He owes her nothing. Trouble is--hisheart reminds him of a cold, hard fact. Lucy's the only woman he'll ever love and he wants her to love him back.