Valentine #25 May 1974

Lyn Bailey is left wondering why only music reporter Terry Conroy gets backstage access to the rising band Rampage—especially when she’s been hoping to meet lead singer Jake. When she finally reaches out for help, she uncovers a painful past: Terry was once Rampage’s guitarist, his career derailed by a wrist injury that left him unable to play. As their friendship deepens, Terry finds new purpose writing songs, even contributing the band’s next hit. But as he rebuilds his life in music, Lyn realizes their connection, though meaningful, can’t last.

Terry Morton stumbles upon a girl with no memory on a lonely beach, her only clue a name tag on her bag. Taken to the eerie Mandrake Towers in Blackwood Bay, she’s greeted with unsettling familiarity by the housekeeper, Mrs Peggoty, and the caretaker, Herman, who presents her with a birthday cake she doesn’t recognize. Anita Brent watches from the shadows, unsure if the girl’s forgotten past holds a key to the house’s secrets—or her own.

Donna spots a man who feels strangely familiar, but she can’t place him—until Bob, who remembers their shared past at Harriet’s guitar-shaped cake party, vanishes without a word. Two years later, fate reunites them again, this time in a borrowed red dress, under the same Chinese lanterns, with the same cake.