The lives of a middle-aged doctor and a love-struck young woman intersect across time in "Sleeping in Eden," Nicole Baart s haunting novel about love, jealousy, and the boundaries between loyalty and truth.
She knew what he wrote . . .
One little word that made her feel both cheated and beloved.
One word that changed everything.
MINE.
On a chilly morning in the Northwest Iowa town of Blackhawk, Dr. Lucas Hudson is filling in for the vacationing coroner on a seemingly open-and-shut suicide case. His own life is crumbling around him, but when he unearths the body of a woman buried in the barn floor beneath the hanging corpse, "he realizes this terrible discovery could change everything. . . . "
Years before Lucas ever set foot in Blackhawk, Meg Painter met Dylan Reid. It was the summer before high school and the two quickly became inseparable. Although Meg s older neighbor, Jess, was the safe choice, she couldn t let go of Dylan no matter how hard she tried.
Caught in a web of jealousy and deceit that spiraled out of control, Meg s choices in the past ultimately collide with Lucas s discovery in the present, "weaving together a taut story of unspoken secrets and the raw, complex passions of innocence lost.""