The moving sequel to bestselling author Charles Martin’s The Dead Don’t Dance. After slipping into a four-months-long coma following the tragic loss of their son in childbirth, Dylan’s wife, Maggie, finally awakens—but can the young couple pick up the broken pieces of their lives and move forward? In a sleepy rural town in South Carolina, Dylan and Maggie Styles were a young couple in love, preparing eagerly for the birth of their first son. When the child was delivered stillborn and Maggie hemorrhaged and slipped into a coma, Dylan’s entire world shattered, but he never gave up hope that she would awaken. And four months later, she did. “When Maggie opened her eyes that New Year's Day some seventeen months ago, I felt like I could see again. The fog lifted off my soul, and for the first time since our son had died and she had gone to sleep–some four months, sixteen days, eighteen hours, and nineteen minutes earlier–I took a breath deep enough to fill both of my lungs.” Life begins again for Dylan when his beloved wife wakes, but so many things have changed. In this poignant love story that is redolent with Southern atmosphere, Dylan and Maggie must come to terms with their past before they can embrace their future. Full-length emotive Southern fiction The sequel to New York Times bestselling authorCharles Martin’s debut novel Part of the Awakening series Book one: The Dead Don’t Dance Book two: Maggie Also by Charles Martin: The Mountain Between Us, Chasing Fireflies, When Crickets Cry, and The Water Keeper

チャールズ・マーティンが描くのは、絶望の淵から光へと這い上がる「祈り」の軌跡です。本作の真髄は、昏睡から目覚めた妻と彼女を待ち続けた夫の間に流れる、静謐ながらも激しい感情の機微にあります。南部の湿った空気感とともに綴られる筆致は、喪失の痛みと再生への戸惑いを浮き彫りにし、読者の心に深く突き刺さります。 著者は、愛する人を再び手に入れる喜びと、その裏にある過酷な現実を妥協なく描き出します。再生とは元の形に戻ることではなく、壊れた欠片を拾い集めて新たな絆を築くこと。その困難で美しいプロセスを肯定する叙情豊かな文体は、まさに文学的至宝です。傷を抱えながらも前を向く二人の姿は、読む者の魂を激しく揺さぶるでしょう。