His Chance is Past Tense, Love is Expired

Stella was a doctor and Lucas's wife. Years earlier she had saved Lucas's life. Celia claimed that rescue as her own. Stella went to a war zone as a relief doctor and died there saving a boy. Her soul stayed near Lucas. From there she saw that Lucas still misunderstood her and that Celia was keeping up the pretense. Lucas eventually learned what had happened, including that the woman who had pulled him through years before was Stella, and that his love had been for Stella all along. He tried to make up for it. Stella was born again as a woman named Sara, and she and Adrian, who had loved her his whole life and had always looked after her, set about changing what her fate had been. In the new life she held power.