In this sequel to "The Dead Don't Dance," Maggie has awakened from her coma and she and her husband try to put their lives back together. They pursue the possibility of adoption and continue to try to get pregnant. As the months pass, pain drives them further apart and they search for a reason to hope and to love.
""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 my lungs.""
Life began again for Dylan Styles when his beloved wife Maggie awoke from a coma. A coma brought on by the intense two-day labor that resulted in heartbreaking loss. 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.