HarperCollins Publishers

A woman who raised herself in the marshes of the Deep South becomes a suspect in the murder of a man with whom she was once involved.

An unhappily married aristocrat begins a torrid affair with the gamekeeper on her husband's country estate.

Poppy wants to explore the world and Alex prefers to stay home with a good book, but somehow they are the very best of friends. They live far apart, but for a decade they have spent one week of summer vacation together.

A compelling argument is made not only with interviews of those (not necessarily religious believers) who had near-death experiences, but an interview with a Cambridge neurologist who explains the "something" that neurons can't de...