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Black out

Lisa Unger

2008368 pagesabout 6–8 hours
2008
first published
  • 2008Crown Publishing Group · ENGISBN 9780307449504
  • 2008Thorndike Press · ENGISBN 9781410409317
  • 2008Three Rivers Press · 371 pages · ENGISBN 9780307338471
  • 2009Random House Publishing Group · ENGISBN 9781409061625
  • 2008Shaye Areheart Books · 368 pages · ENGISBN 9780307338488

When my mother named me Ophelia, she thought she was being literary. She didn't realize she was being tragic.On the surface, Annie Powers's life in a wealthy Floridian suburb is happy and idyllic. Her husband, Gray, loves her fiercely; together, they dote on their beautiful young daughter, Victory. But the bubble surrounding Annie is pricked when she senses that the demons of her past have resurfaced and, to her horror, are now creeping up on her. These are demons she can't fully recall because of a highly dissociative state that allowed her to forget the tragic and violent episodes of her earlier life as Ophelia March and to start over, under the loving and protective eye of Gray, as Annie Powers. Disturbing events--the appearance of a familiar dark figure on the beach, the mysterious murder of her psychologist--trigger strange and confusing memories for Annie, who realizes she has to quickly piece them together before her past comes to claim her future and her daughter.From the Hardcover edition.

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