"A woman in a coma. The man who could save her life-if only he could speak. When young, beautiful Cassie Jensen arrives unconscious to the intensive care ward at St. Catherines hospital after being struck in a hit-and-run while out walking her dog, chief nurse Alice Marlowe thinks she looks familiar. She starts digging deeper into Cassies relationships, only to discover something about her patient that shed been keeping secret from everyone, including her devoted husband and family. Soon Alice finds herself obsessed with her patients past and future, even willing to put her own career on the line in her single-minded search for answers. Frank, a patient on the same ward who has locked-in syndrome, can hear and see everything around him but cannot speak. Soon he comes to understand that Cassies life is still in danger. While the police continue to look for clues, only Frank holds the truth, but hes unable to communicate it. As the novel flashes between points of view, the reader will get closer and closer to the truth of who Cassie Jensen was, and why she was out on the road that fateful night..."--Goodreads.com.