I Died. Then He Saw Me Again

Before the divorce, Elara Vance wrote fairy tales. After it, she exiled herself to Detroit and became a bestselling horror novelist, telling readers that before you die, you have to get a little wild. She keeps the basement of her villa as her forbidden zone, where she writes in the dark and hides the morphine that eases the pain of a brain condition the doctors call inoperable.

Then her agent, Mr. White, brings a new tenant: Ethan Hayes, the ex-husband she has not seen in four years, a cop whose steady gaze has not changed. With him is Leo, a five-year-old boy with Ethan's eyes, and the arithmetic of four years of divorce and a five-year-old child cuts deep. Ethan says only that he betrayed her, as he did the night he pushed the divorce papers across the table.

When a packet of white powder falls from Elara's pocket, Ethan pins her against the wall and demands to know what she has become. She tells him her affairs no longer concern him. Yet the boy, the basement, and the secret she is dying to keep are all under one roof now.