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 and, while standing in her house, is struck by lightning. But instead ofending her life, this cataclysmic event sparks a strange and powerful new beginning. After the lightning strike, thechill is her spirit starts to have physical manifestations. She feels frozen from theinside out, and every- thing red looks as colorless as snow.Hearing of a fellow lightning-strike survivor - a man who was apparently dead for forty minutes, then simply got up and walked away - she goes in searchof him. Perhaps Lazarus Jones, as he is known, can teach her tolive without fear. He turns out to be her perfect opposite, a man whose breath can boilwater and whose touch scorches.As an obsessive love affair begins between them, both hidetheir most dangerous secrets- what happens in the past thatturned one to ice and the otherto fire.And everyone in her fragile network of friends and family will be drawn into the conflagration of their joining.
