Second Glance
Jodi Picoult
Atria Books
<b>This breathtaking novel from #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Jodi Picoult asks: Do we love across time, or in spite of it?</b><BR><i>"Sometimes I wonder....Can a ghost find you, if she wants to?"</i><BR> <BR>An intricate tale of love, haunting memories, and renewal, <i>Second Glance </i>begins in current-day Vermont, where an old man puts a piece of land up for sale and unintentionally raises protest from the local Abenaki Indian tribe, who insist it's a burial ground. When odd, supernatural events plague the town of Comtosook, a ghost hunter is hired by the developer to help convince the residents that there's nothing spiritual about the property.<BR> <BR>Enter Ross Wakeman, a suicidal drifter who has put himself in mortal danger time and again. He's driven his car off a bridge into a lake. He's been mugged in New York City and struck by lightning in a calm country field. Yet despite his best efforts, life clings to him and pulls him ever deeper into the empty...