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August Colbert talks to dead people. She’s communicated with her dreams since she was a child, often using animals as her guide. She’s confused when she continues to have the same dream--a child’s dirty, blood-crusted hand reaching for her, his pleading whispers for help digging into her heart and bringing back painful memories.
August believes that it’s the same one she’s had before, considering it’s happening again the week before the three year anniversary of when her husband wrecked their truck while taking their son to an asthma specialist in Oklahoma City. Her beautiful, happy family was ripped apart when the local police chief refused to hear her pleas for help, simply because she’d dreamed they were trapped in a smoking car. She watched as they slowly bleeding to death in a freak, early winter snowstorm. When she realizes it’s not her son reaching out, August knows a child will die if she doesn’t find him. And she’ll have to trust the one man that destroyed her life, her family, and her heart.
Although Levi Overton was raised by his Native American grandmother, he’s never believed in mysticism or superstitions. But he can’t run from his dreams, and is haunted by the image of a young, desperate woman pleading for his help. He can’t shake the image of her pale face as she grieves over the bodies of her husband, and four-year-old child. His wife couldn’t handle his nightly self-medicating with alcohol and divorced him, taking their son as far away from his descent into depression as she could get. His job is hanging precariously by a thread, and the last thing he needs is something else to go wrong that could give the city manager, his ex-brother-in-law, a legitimate reason to fire him. But he’s willing to risk it all when August comes to him with another one of her dreams. This time he won’t let her down, even if it kills him.
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