Change... chance...choice... These are things that control life and make it interesting. They bring love or pain. They bring joy and sorrow. Little did Lora know how much these factors were going to affect her life. Who is to say who you can trust in this world or why you should love someone? How could someone you love deliberately hurt you in a horrifying way; in a devastating way? And you don't recognize it till much later? Are there ever any signs? If there are, why couldn’t she see it coming? How could a chance meeting turn so wrong? He saw her once and knew he had to have her. She only knew that they met four years earlier on the island of Barbados. Lora Hall was there on her senior class trip and Ralph Mantilla called the island home. It was not unusual for these types of love affairs to happen, but to last longer than the trip, let alone four years, was really weird. It was an accidental meeting; at least that was what Lora thought. Ralph had been watching her and her friends throughout the trip. He watched her swim in the clear blue water and could not resist staring as she came out. He thought she was so sexy. Lora was going to be his prize.