A Topaz brooch is the key to her life…and her death.

The last thing Risa remembers is the accident. Knocked unconscious, she wakes up to a completely changed reality. The people around her are strangers, she’s wearing strange clothes, and even her face isn’t the same.

Fleeing back to her home for answers, Risa is horrified to discover that a whole year has passed. And that she’s been declared dead! Convinced she’s going mad, she turns to an old family heirloom—a topaz brooch—for answers. But sometimes the answers you receive are worse than the questions…

This Retro Romance reprint was originally published in October 1975 by Ballantine Books.