Michael and Patricia Novak and friends go to dinner on a snowy New Year's Eve. Patricia collapses at dinner and is taken to a small but new hospital. She is unresponsive and sinks into a coma. The medical personnel soon learn that the wine she drank was poisoned. When she awakes, the personality in her body is Ellie Frasers. She had been brought into the hospital the same night, because Ellie's husband tried to kill her. Ellie's first reaction is that she is safe, and Nick, her husband, will never find her to abuse her again. But who will care for Ellie's two children she dearly loves? Ellie soon learns that Patricia has problems of her own. For starters, who tried to kill her with poisoned wine? Why? Second, there is Michael, Patricia's husband. Even though he is a hunk, what is his agenda? Third, there is a mouthy teenage daughter to deal with. Her only choice is to make a transition into Trish.
