After two months in a coma following a fatal car accident, Amaryllis ("Lissy") Fait awakes to a world she does not remember and discovers that she is not the person she thinks she is. By nature, nurture, and inclination her future seems inevitably laid out before her - this is Lissy's fate. Her unusual circumstances give her an opportunity to consider whether she wants to embrace her fate or take a different path in life. Lissy's fate becomes Lissy's choice - what will she decide?