Approaching her forty-fifth year, Ashley Ramsey drifts back in time to revisit a younger and more vibrant self to a place called Cottonwood Coulee where she was independent and professional in her documentary career at CJB Television Productions. She didnat understand, yet remained trapped in that time as a consequence of one man and his calculated intent. Why her trusted handsome husband, liaison Army officer, Jamaican-born Sergeant Jake Jackson, had rocked the very foundation of their intimacies, she couldnat have known. Reflection reveals his painful secrets, which catapult him into a manipulative web, created and controlled by the conniving and powerful mogul, Bahamas-based Colby Jefferson-Blake. With television stations and shopping malls as his economic interests back then, Colbyas obsession with the people of Cottonwood Coulee infiltrates her inner sanctum without her knowledge or permission before he, too, falls prey to the lessons of consequence.