Callie has a great life, living in a ten-acre home in the Adirondacks with her husband, Abel. Their son is away at college and Callie, a writer, is content living a relatively secluded life. Then Abel skids off the road into an icy lake.

No one heard anything.
No one saw anything.

But Abel is left in a coma in a Vermont hospital.

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Things seem bad but they’re about to get even worse. Now Callie is getting calls from a woman who claims to know more about the accident. Callie is skeptical, though a few things do line up, and she’s always wondered why her husband was where he was at the time of the accident.

Then every spouse’s worst nightmare: police tell Callie her husband is a suspect in the disappearance of two teenage girls. Callie will do whatever it takes to clear his name. But is she really ready for the truth about her husband . . . ?

My Review

I was a beta reader for this back in April. I read it then in two days. My heart was in my mouth for most of it. I really cared about Callie and about Althea too. The constant suspense and the surprises that were added every day.

I was invited to read the ‘finished’ book and then to be on the blog tour so I jumped at the chance. I also read it again from scratch as I knew there would be changes and edits. To be honest I had forgotten quite a lot, which is a good thing as it was like reading a totally new story.

It was just as exciting the second time round. Imagine being in Callie’s shoes – her husband Abel is in a coma following a horrific accident. Then she gets a call from a young woman called Althea Cooper, whom she has never met or even heard of, telling her that her husband’s ‘accident’ was not an accident. Someone rammed his car off the road and into the frozen lake. In her mind Althea has alternative memories in which she can see a box shaped house, a green SUV and bears, lots of them. But then the Adirondacks is full of bears.

And if that wasn’t bad enough, the police are treating her husband as a ‘person of interest’ in the disappearance of two teenage girls. And why was her husband in the vicinity of the lake anyway? He had no reason to be there.

But Callie knows her husband, knows him inside out. After all, they’ve been together for decades and have a grown-up son. Abel wouldn’t do anything like that, would he. And now he’s a soft target, lying unconscious in the hospital.

Callie, of course, isn’t going to leave it there. She’s going to investigate, not just about the crash, but also to clear Abel’s name. Can Althea help or is she a fraud? And is Detective Footman on her side? Or does he believe Abel is guilty? Another great book from one of my favourite authors.

Many thanks to @zooloo2008 for inviting me to be part of this blog tour.

About the Author

T.J. Brearton’s books have reached half a million readers around the world and have topped the Amazon charts in the US, UK, Canada and Australia. A graduate of the New York Film Academy in Manhattan, Brearton first worked in film before focusing on novels. His books are visually descriptive with sharp dialogue and underdog heroes. When not writing, Brearton does whatever his wife and three children tell him to do. They live happily in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. Yes, there are bears in the Adirondacks. But it’s really quite beautiful when you’re not running for your life.