When I Close My Eyes

Novelist Josephine Bourdillon lies in a coma, her secret of 'The Awful Year' possibly lost forever. The man who attacked her, former soldier Henry Hughes, is also paralyzed, his desperate motive for his son's surgery unfulfilled. As detectives investigate unsettling fan letters, Josephine's daughter, Paige, delves into her mother's turbulent past for answers. This story, set between North Carolina and the Mediterranean, explores two families grappling with dysfunction and the enduring power of love.