This breathtaking novel from #1 NY Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult asks: Do we love across time, or in spite of it?

“Sometimes I question….May a ghost come across you, if she wants to?”

An intricate story of love, haunting memories, and renewal, Second Glance begins in current-day Vermont, where a vintage man puts a piece of land up for sale and unintentionally raises protest from the local Abenaki Indian tribe, who insist it’s a burial ground. When odd, supernatural events plague the city about Second Glimpse: A Book of Comtosook, a ghost hunter is hired with the developer to greatly help convince the residents that there’s nothing spiritual about the house.

Enter Ross Wakeman, a suicidal drifter who has put himself in mortal danger time and again. He’s powered his car off a bridge into a lake. He’s been mugged in NEW YORK and struck by lightning within a relaxed country field. However despite his best efforts, existence clings to him and pulls him ever deeper in to the vacant presence he cannot carry since his fiancée’s loss of life in a car crash eight years ago. Ross now lives only for the moment he could once more encounter the woman he loves. However in Comtosook, the only breakthrough Ross can place claim to is usually that of Lia Beaumont, a skittish, mysterious female who, like Ross, is definitely on a seek out something beyond the boundary separating life and death. Hence begins Jodi Picoult’s enthralling and ultimately astonishing story of love, fate, and a crime of passion.

Hailed by critics like a “grasp” storyteller (The Washington Post), Picoult once again “pushes herself, and therefore the reader, to take into account the unthinkable” (Denver Post). Second Look, her eeriest & most engrossing work yet, delves right into a virtually unknown section of American history-Vermont’s eugenics task from the 1920s and 30s-to give a convincing study of things that come back to haunt us-literally and figuratively. Do we like across period, or regardless of it?