As a young girl, Shauna McAllister loses her mother, and hope and faith seem to follow. Shauna's relationship with her father becomes estranged at best. She yearns for his love, but Landon is a broken man who throws himself into his campaign and allows his mind to be poisoned by grief and bad influences.
In fact, the deception and manipulation of the mind is a running theme for many of the characters and much of the plot. It is certainly a topic worth exploring, and Dekker and Healy present it well.
The story takes off when a confrontation between father and daughter goes bad.
Then the accident.
Then nothing.
Shauna wakes to discover her world drastically altered. She is a woman unaccustomed to depending on others, but now finds herself at the mercy of many, for pieces of her memory- integral pieces- have been lost. And in the midst of it all, she doesn't know whom to trust.
Although Shauna has lost her memory, she has gained a special skill that she must learn to wield carefully in hopes of discovering the truth. She sets out on a suspense filled journey to regain what has been lost...or perhaps taken... and clear her name, but it is what she gains in the process that sets in motion a ripple of redemption.
Ted Dekker came highly recommended to me, and this is the first work of his that I have read. Although I wasn't immediately hooked, I stayed with it and was rewarded with a good suspense that kept me guessing and turning pages. I would recommend it for an enjoyable weekend read.
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