First published 2012
Ian McGann thinks he's having an ordinary dream when he encounters a dead acquaintance who answers his questions about what comes after life. He wakes to find a pink scar carved across his chest. Night after night, Ian returns to these conversations with death itself. His questions multiply but his understanding shrinks. Worse, each morning brings fresh wounds to his body. In Sardinia, Ian confides his story to an American traveler. The stranger begins experiencing identical dreams and suffering the same brutal injuries. Meanwhile, a former television star battles leukemia while a movie actor falls for an HIV positive photographer. All four people find themselves dancing at the edge of mortality. Their attempts to grasp the secrets of death only reveal how little they understood about existence itself. The closer they get to answers, the more dangerous their situation becomes.
Genres: literary-fiction, mystery, fantasy, horror, thriller, paranormal
Vibes: dark, emotional, intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: unreliable-narrator
Setting: Sardinia
205 pages · Kindle Edition · Open Road
Content warnings: death, medical-trauma