When Damon drowns, his ex-wife and best friend, Melissa, revives him. While dying, Damon relives parts of his life, but an unexplained moment featuring a dead boy follows him back to life--as does the dead boy. Tormented by what he has seen, combined with hallucinations of the boy, Damon seeks answers as to why the boy haunts him—convinced that the only way to solve the mystery is to die again. Against Melissa's advice, he drowns himself again, only to uncover more unsettling visions and hallucinations that follow him back to life. With each succeeding death and resuscitation, Damon realizes that his past is not what he believes it is, and he begins his search to uncover the truth.
The plot is intriguing, the pacing pitch-perfect, and the suspense mounts with every page. As Damon finds out more about his past, it affects him in unimaginable ways. The reader follows Damon down the rabbit hole and witnesses his mental and physical decline. In typical Marrs fashion, all is not as it appears, and as one character says, sometimes the past is best in the past.
4.5/5 stars.
Thank you, NetGalley and Thomas & Mercer, for an advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own. The publication date is January 20, 2026.
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