Casey Schillinge is a vivacious young woman on the verge of making her mark on the world. While backpacking, she is struck down by a tropical disease and suffers cardiac failure. But at the eleventh hour, Casey receives a life-saving heart transplant and a rare second chance to begin again. Three years later, Casey has become a withdrawn shell of her former self: she is estranged from her loved ones, afraid of open spaces and rides the line between legitimate and criminal work. The worst of her troubles come in the form of violent night terrors; so frightening that she resorts to extreme measures to keep herself from sleeping. When she can take no more, she embarks on a desperate search for the source of her dreams. In so doing, she makes a shocking discovery surrounding the tragic fate of the donor whose heart now beats inside her chest. As she delves deeper into the mystery of her donor, she realizes her dreams are not a figment of her imagination, but a real life nightmare.
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I finished this a few days ago, but was having trouble figuring out how to write the review for it. It felt like it took a long time to pick up, and I had a lot of trouble getting into it. This cacused me to put it down for a bit before coming back to try again. The plot is great, I love stories with organ transplants affecting personality and seeming to carry things over from the donor. I could understand the seeming depression that Casey took on, too; she was pretty well written. It did pick up and action nearer the end though, and things finally got exciting. Granted, I had figured it out for the most part by then, but I tend to do that, so it didn't bother me that I wasn't surprised. Not a bad read! Bob says: 3 Platypires |