Lily's Ghost A Novel

As a doctor in Vietnam, Lily survived unimaginable terror and loss. Now, safely ensconced in a close-knit Maine town and a seemingly comfortable marriage, she no longer needs to be afraid, but she is: afraid of light, afraid of sudden sounds, afraid of seeing the wide-eyed child of war who haunts her. So Lily is unprepared for the act of betrayal that threatens to take away the one thing she cannot live without: her young son. Plunged into a bitter custody battle, befriended by a man with a heartbreaking secret of his own, Lily must fightto escape her own memories, to survive an uncertain future, and to protect, above all else, the love between a mother and child. From the Trade Paperback edition.

CHERYL DRAKE HARRIS is a former nurse and teacher who lives with her husband in Maine, where she is at work on her second novel, about a contemporary writer reasearching the life of Elizabeth Siddal, the wife of poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, which Dell will publish in 2007.