WHAT HAPPENED TO TARA? Tara Beckley, a senior at idyllic Hammel College in Maine, is driving a visiting professor to a conference on campus. But after he makes a strange request, they're the victims of a brutal accident. The professor is killed immediately, and Tara is left in a coma. At least, so her doctors think. Really, she is a prisoner of locked-in syndrome: fully alert and aware but unable to move a muscle. WHAT IF SHE WAKES? Abby Kaplan, an insurance investigator, is hired by the college to look into Tara's case. Abby, a former stunt driver, returned home from Hollywood after a disaster left an actor dead and her own reputation shattered. Despite the fog of her trauma, she can tell that what happened to Tara and the professor was no accident. When she starts asking questions, things quickly spin out of control, sending Abby on the run while Tara lies silent—holding the key to a deadly secret. "It's a measure of how good this book is that the chilling, masterfully sustained suspense is only one of its standout achievements...Koryta has never been better." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Koryta again shows his affinity for smoothly melding sophisticated action with solid character development.. Believable twists propel the tense If She Wakes as it moves to a surprising finale." - Oline H. Cogdill, Associated Press