by Lisa Jackson
First published 2009
Rick Bentz lies in his hospital bed, recovering from an accident that should have killed him. The familiar scent of gardenias fills the air, the same fragrance his first wife Jennifer wore every day. He opens his eyes and sees her standing in the doorway of his room. She blows him a kiss and vanishes. Jennifer died twelve years ago. Bentz knows this. He attended her funeral. He mourned her death. Yet here she is, appearing to him when he's most vulnerable. The detective in him searches for logical explanations, but the evidence of his senses tells a different story. As more encounters follow, Bentz must confront the possibility that Jennifer has returned from the dead, or that his mind is fracturing under the weight of his injuries. The boundary between reality and hallucination blurs as he struggles to understand whether his deceased wife is truly haunting him or if his guilt and grief have finally driven him over the edge.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, contemporary
Vibes: dark, emotional, suspenseful
Tropes: unreliable-narrator
432 pages · Hardcover · Kensington Pub Corp
Content warnings: mental-illness