Moxie sets out on the dreaded, dangerous Trail to rescue Carol before she can be buried alive. Carol’s faithful maid alerts the man Carol once loved, the outlaw James Moxie. When Carol’s closest friend dies, she realizes she should take someone else into her confidence, in case she should have an episode while Dwight is away or too ill to intercede, but before she can share her secret, she goes under again, and Dwight launches his dastardly plan.īut all is not lost. Dwight knows her deepest secret - that every once in a while, with no predictable pattern or symptoms, Carol falls into a coma indistinguishable from death. Carol is a wealthy, well-loved woman, esteemed by the townsfolk of Harrows, but her husband fakes affection while yearning for her money. What a strange book! The concept is pretty cool. As the players in this drama of life and death fight to decide her fate, Carol must in the end battle to save herself. When word of Carol’s dreadful fate reaches him, Moxie rides the Trail again to save his beloved from an early, unnatural grave.Īnd all the while, awake and aware, Carol fights to free herself from the crippling darkness that binds her-summoning her own fierce will to survive. The other is her lost love, the infamous outlaw James Moxie. One is her husband, Dwight, who married Carol for her fortune, and-when she lapses into another coma-plots to seize it by proclaiming her dead and quickly burying her.
Only two people know of Carol’s eerie condition.
but her many deaths are not final: They are comas, a waking slumber indistinguishable from death, each lasting days. Carol Evers is a woman with a dark secret.
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