Kiss by Ted Dekker, Erin Healy

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After partially recovering from a six-month coma, Shauna McAllister has returned home, but her memory of the car accident that caused it has been erased. Her estranged father, a senator with eyes on the White House, and her abusive stepmother blame Shauna for the tragedy. Wracked with guilt (the accident left her brother severely brain damaged), she attempts to piece together scattered images from that horrible day. What she eventually discovers will astonish and endanger her. A crisp Christian read about responsibility.

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Let me tell you all I know for sure. My name: Shauna. I woke up in a hospital bed missing six months of my memory. In the room was my loving boyfriend – how could I have forgotten him? – my estranged father and my abusive stepmother. Everyone blames me for the tragic car accident that left me near death and my dear brother brain damaged. But what they say can’t be true – can it? I believe the medicine is doing strange things to my memory. I’m unsure who I can trust and who I should run from. And I’m starting to remember things I’ve never known. Things not about me. I think I’m going crazy. And even worse, I think they want to kill me.

Publishers Weekly

Master of evangelical Christian suspense, Dekker (Thr3e; Blink; Skin) joins first-time author Healy in this thriller, no less fast-moving than the Christy Award-winning author's solo prose, but also more gripping as it plunges into the life of a woman with frayed and painful family relationships. When a tragic auto accident leaves Shauna McAllister's brother brain-damaged and erases her recent memories, she discovers she has a paranormal ability to steal memories from others, a capability that will either get her killed or unveil hidden sides of the very people she thought she could trust. Against this background, she attempts to uncover the ugly truth about her father's dark secrets and to upend his run for president of the United States. True to Dekker's penchant for twists that keep you guessing till the very last page, Kiss also attempts to return to snappier dialogue and more logical plotting than Skin. A psychological suspense thriller that shines light into black-market child trafficking, Dekker's latest will satisfy Christian fiction lovers who want complex characters and who believe in the stark realities of true good and heinous evil. (Jan.)

Tamara Butler - Library Journal

Shauna McAllister cannot remember the last six months of her life after suffering a traumatic automobile accident that left her in a coma. She returns home to recuperate but finds that her family blames her for the accident, which also severely injured her brother. Shauna's friend Wayne Spade tries to jog her memory, but instead Shauna develops the mysterious ability to read other peoples' memories. She needs to find out what really caused her accident, but she also knows that it may cost her her life. Debut novelist Healy is aided by thriller master Dekker's talent for writing suspense with a supernatural edge. Kiss will also appeal to readers who enjoy books by Eric Wilson (Expiration Date), T.L. Hines (Waking Lazarus), and Kathryn Mackel (The Hidden). Recommended for CF and crossover suspense collections.

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