Two women fight for their lives against an enigmatic killer in this
electrifying novel from a New York Times bestselling author and
"master" of thriller writing (Stephen King).
Tara Beckley is a senior at idyllic Hammel College in Maine. As she
drives to deliver a visiting professor to a conference, a horrific car
accident kills the professor and leaves Tara in a vegetative state. At
least, so her doctors think. In fact, she's a prisoner of locked-in
syndrome: fully alert but unable to move a muscle. Trapped in her body,
she learns that someone powerful wants her dead -- but why? And what can
she do, lying in a hospital bed, to stop them?
Abby Kaplan, an insurance investigator, is hired by the college to look
in to Tara's case. A former stunt driver, Abby returned home after a
disaster in Hollywood left an actor dead and her own reputation -- and
nerves -- shattered. Despite the fog of trauma, she can tell that Tara's
car crash was no accident. When she starts asking questions, things
quickly spin out of control, leaving Abby on the run and a mysterious
young hit man named Dax Blackwell hard on her heels.
Full of pulse-pounding tension, If She Wakes is a searing, breakneck
thriller from the genre's "best of the best" (Michael Connelly).
