Journey is swept up in an epic romance spanning modern times. She meets Air Force Captain Tyler Ross and falls passionately in love. Their impulsive desires quickly end when Tyler is sent to the Desert Storm war. There Tyler is injured in the deadly assault on his barracks in Dhahran. Unaware, Journey’s heartache grows as she raises their child alone. Her tenderness is further tested when she is forced to make a decision for her child’s sake and unwittingly marries an abusive man.
From the violence of Desert Storm to the suffering of a VA hospital Tyler struggles to walk and remember the love he lost. While in the hospital he meets Kaitlen Monfrey, a wealthy heiress whose skill of manipulating people is quickly used on Tyler. Heartbroken with the love he lost, he unsuspectingly falls prey for her deception and marries her.
While Tyler lives in wealth, Journey endures her life in paucity. Although their lives move in opposite twisting directions their love endures. It is this endurance that echoes when Tyler finds Journey and the child he never knew. Although together the uncertainty of Y2K and the threat of retaliation from their now scorn former spouses becomes real. As Journey and Tyler endure the trials of the late 20th century their love is tested once again on 9/11.