Jane Hawk knows she may be living on borrowed time. She’s the spitting image of the twenty-six-year-old donor of the heart beating steadily in Ryan’s own chest. For Ryan is being stalked by a mysterious woman who feels entitled to everything he has.

In a heartbeat, the medical miracle that gave Ryan a second chance at life is about to become a curse worse than death. Most disturbing of all, a graphic heart surgery video and the chilling message: Your heart belongs to me. Then the unmarked gifts begin to appear-a box of Valentine candy hearts, a heart pendant. Business is good and he hopes to renew his relationship with Samantha.

One year later, Ryan has never felt better. Ryan is about to lose it all…his health, his girlfriend Samantha, and his life. Within days, he’s diagnosed with incurable cardiomyopathy and finds himself on the waiting list for a heart transplant it’s his only hope, and it’s dwindling fast. Here a brilliant young man finds himself fighting for his very existence in a battle that starts with the most frightening words of all… At thirty-four, Internet entrepreneur Ryan Perry seemed to have the world in his pocket-until the first troubling symptoms appeared out of nowhere. And there's no other experience quite like it.įrom the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense comes a riveting thriller that probes the deepest terrors of the human psyche-and the ineffable mystery of what truly makes us who we are. until it lets you go, unmistakably changed. From its tense opening to its shattering climax, The Husband is a thriller that will hold you in its relentless grip for every twist, every shock, every revelation. He's confident that Mitch will find a way. The caller doesn't care that Mitch runs a small two-man landscaping operation and has no way of raising such a vast sum. He has Mitch's wife and he's named the price for her safe return. Whoever is on the other end of the line is dead serious. Now he's standing in a normal suburban neighborhood on a bright summer day, having a phone conversation out of his darkest nightmare. He was in the middle of planting impatiens in the yard of one of his clients when his cell phone rang. Landscaper Mitchell Rafferty thinks it must be some kind of joke. You can get her back for two million cash. What would you do for love? Would you die? Would you kill? We have your wife. Now, in what may be his most suspenseful and heartfelt novel ever, he brings us the story of an ordinary man whose extraordinary commitment to his wife will take him on a harrowing journey of adventure, sacrifice, and redemption to the mystery of love itself-and to a showdown with the darkness that would destroy it forever. With each and every new novel, Dean Koontz raises the stakes-and the pulse rate-higher than any other author.

Red Rain by Dean Koontz