Second Glance
A Novel
Excerpt
Ross Wakeman succeeded the first time he killed himself, but not the second or
the third.
He fell asleep at the wheel and drove his car off a bridge into a lake - that
was the second time - and was found on the shore by rescuers. When his
half-sunken Honda was recovered, the doors were all locked, and the tempered
glass windows were shattered like spider webs, but still intact. No one could
figure out how he'd gotten out of the car in the first place, much less
survived a crash without even a scratch.
The third time, Ross was mugged in New York City. The thief took his wallet
and beat him up, and then shot him in the back and left him for dead. The
bullet - fired close enough to have shattered his scapula and punctured a lung
- didn't. Instead it miraculously stopped at the bone, a small nugget of lead
that Ross now used as a keychain.
The first time was years ago, when Ross had found himself in the middle of an
electrical storm. The lightning, beautiful blue charge, had staggered out of
the sky heading straight for his heart. The doctors told him that he had b ... read full excerpt from: Second Glance - A Novel ebook
