REMEMBER ME THIS WAY

By Sabine Durrant

It’s the darkest anniversary you can imagine. It has been one year since Lizzie, a sweet British school librarian, lost her husband Zach, and she has come to visit the lonely stretch of highway where he died in a one-car accident. Today is also Valentine’s Day, so Lizzie stops to pick up flowers that she can leave at the site of the accident. While there, however, Lizzie notices that someone else has beaten her to the punch, as there is a bouquet “For Zach,” signed by a mysterious, “Xenia.”

A very troubled Lizzie decides to go to Zach’s vacation cabin. What she’s expecting to find there is a letter she had mailed just before he died, telling him that she wanted a divorce. She plans to burn the letter and is glad that he died before he had the chance to read it. However, when she gets there she finds yet another surprise: the letter has been torn up and thrown into the bottom of a garbage can. Suddenly a terror grows in Lizzie’s chest, and a strange feeling that she’s being watched takes over her mind.

Digging into her controlling husband’s past, she finds out things that makes her question what she thought to be true. In fact, the more she uncovers, the more Lizzie realizes that she never actually knew the man she’d married. And with each step she takes, accident or no accident, it seems that Zach may still be very much alive and waiting to claim her once again.

Sabine Durrant has done a spectacular job with this plot and the layout of the story. Some chapters are told by Zach and dated over several years leading up to his accident. A complicated, disturbed brain is revealed owned by an insulting, scheming man who may be playing with Lizzie like a puppeteer. This is definitely one story you will not forget when it comes to a close.