Audio Book Description:
Be careful what you wish for. A woman who was touched by tragedy as a child now livesa quiet life, keeping other people at a cool distance. Sheeven believes she wants it thatway. Then one day she uttersan idle wish andwhile standing in her house, is struck by lightning. But instead of ending herlife, this cataclysmic event sparks a strange and powerful new beginning. After the lightning strike, the chill in her spirit starts to havephysical manifestations. She feels frozen from the inside out, and every- thing red looksa colorless as snow. Hearingof a fellow lightning-strikesurvivor - a man who was apparently dead for fourty minutes, then simply gotup and walked away - she goes in search of him.Perhaps Lazarus Jones, as he isknown, can teach her to live without fear. He turns out to be her perfect opposite, a manwhose breath can boil water and whose touch scorches. As anobsessive love affair begins between them, both hide their most dangerous secrets - what happened in the past thatturned one to ice and the other to fire.And everyone in their fragile network of friends and family will be drawn intothe conflagration of their joining.