Brain Damage

Dr. Charlotte “Charly” McKenna has the life she always wanted — a thriving Manhattan dermatology practice, a beautiful apartment, a handsome attorney husband — until the night she is shot in the head outside her own home. The bullet damages the precise part of her brain that holds the memory of her attacker.

She survives, but she wakes in a rehabilitation hospital unable to recall who pulled the trigger or why, forced to relearn ordinary life while a would-be killer remains free.

The narrative alternates between the months leading up to the shooting and the slow, frustrating work of her recovery, and as the two timelines converge Charly begins to suspect her perfect life was never as it appeared.

The medical detail of brain injury and rehabilitation grounds a mystery in which the protagonist cannot trust the one witness who matters most: herself.