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Naomi LoudContemporary Literature
Was I Ever Here
Five years ago, the narrator bled to death from a knife wound to the throat. He did not stay dead. He woke changed, with memories of his past lives intact, and they have haunted him ever since.
Throughout those years he has been certain that he spent lifetimes bound to one soul, through love, heartache and betrayal. Now he is hunting the man who killed him, and that search leads him to a bar where he holds a gun to the boss's head.
Behind the bar stands Sunny, trembling. He knows at once that she is the person he has been looking for. She is terrified of him, and he has no intention of letting her go.
The book is a dark romance told in the first person by the man who has remembered. Sunny does not remember anything yet. It promises a happily ever after, and it carries mature situations and themes that some readers may find triggering. The question it turns on is whether memory can bring her back to him, or whether he is only claiming a stranger.