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Author: Lisa Unger

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Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9780307472298 - ISBN-10: 0307472299
Publication Date: 4/28/2009
Pages: 560

Book Description:
When my mother named me Ophelia, she thought she was being literary. She didn't realize she was being tragic.

On the surface, Annie Powers's life in a wealthy Floridian suburb is happy and idyllic. Her husband, Gray, loves her fiercely; together, they dote on their beautiful young daughter, Victory. But the bubble surrounding Annie is pricked when she senses that the demons of her past have resurfaced and, to her horror, are now creeping up on her. These are demons she can't fully recall because of a highly dissociative state that allowed her to forget the tragic and violent episodes of her earlier life as Ophelia March and to start over, under the loving and protective eye of Gray, as Annie Powers. Disturbing events-the appearance of a familiar dark figure on the beach, the mysterious murder of her psychologist-trigger strange and confusing memories for Annie, who realizes she has to quickly piece them together before her past comes to claim her future and her daughter.

Vintage Crime/Black Lizard.
Lisa Unger is a pseudonym used by Lisa Miscione.

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Top Member Book Reviews

Brenda R. (bothrootes) wrote on 5/24/2009...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

Throughout the book it is hard to figure out if the story is all a fantasy Annie's mind created to make itself whole again after events in her life were so tamatic that she is unable to accept them, or if the bizzar things happening to her are real. As a teen Ophlia, later known as Annie, moves to Florida with her mother who marries a mass murderer and rapist who is in prison. Marlowe, the murderer's son, becomes her instant stepbrother, lover and posessor. The story bounces back and forth between present and past memories and experiences. The story is very scarry and definitely a page turner. Annie is a very likeable character who you will want to come out whole in the end.

Donna C. (g-ma) wrote on 5/3/2009...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

Very well written, will want to keep turning the pages on this one!

Annie died once as Ophelia and will have to die as Annie to protect her family and find the people who are searching for her.


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