Once, Ellie Nightingale had been an unwed teenage mother, adrift in New York City. Now, she is a renowned psychologist, married to a brilliant doctor--but unable to forget what had happened to her and her baby in that nightmare time. Once, socialite Kate Sutton had been a champion rider with a golden future. Now, her adopted daughter has grown into a star horsewoman for whom no hurdle is too high--until she falls in love with a man completely wrong for her...and finds herself pregnant with a baby she cannot keep. Linked together by fate and circumstance, these three women will soon learn what they share--as they move toward the most shocking discovery, and the cruelest choice, a woman should ever have to make....